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Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Chorus. Let the toast pass, Drink to the lassö I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for a glass!

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

   Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

—Bible (NewTestament)

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.

—Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir

   The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

   why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voices of liberty be mute? He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.

—Herbert, George

There are some lives duller Than dusty glass

—Takuboku, Ishikawa

Enjoyanother glass, for you see what the end is.

—Anonymous

Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? He's all a knave or half a slave Who slights his country thus: But a true man, like you, man, Will fill your glass with us.

—Ingram,John Kells

In them one can see the spontaneousöand often aestheticöexpressionof a peoplereflected, not ina gilt- framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.

—Rockefeller,Winthrop

Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid†an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and† It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

—Carey, Peter

   It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glassisfalling hourby hour, theglass will fall forever, But if you break the bloody glass, you won't hold up the weather.

—MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire. Revelation

—Bible (NewTestament)

At one withthe One, it didn't meana thing besidea glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

  Yet is that glass so gay, that it can blind The wisest sight, to think gold that is brass.

—Spenser, Edmund

There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection of your own minds.

—Astell, Mary

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

My Darling, prickly hedgehog of the heart, chocolates, cherries, hairshirts, pinks and glassö when we joined in the sublime blindness of courtship loving lost all its vice with half its virtue.

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

Weneverknowswot'shiddenineachother'shearts;and if we had glass winders there, we'd need keep the shutters up, some on us, I do assure you!

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Dance on this ball-floor thin and wan, Use him as though you love him; Court him, elude him, reel and pass, And let him hate you through the glass.

—Blunden, Edmund Charles

When Winter scourged the meadow and the hill And in the withered leafage worked his will, Then water shrank, and shuddered, and stood still,ö Then built himself a magic house of glass, Irised with memories of flowers and grass, Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass.

—Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas

New glass skyscrapers stand shoulder to shoulder, reflecting one another narcissistically.

—Talese, Gay

Don't be surprised, If I demur, for, be advised, My passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised To toastThe Queen.

—Heaney, SeamusJustin

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

—Swift,Jonathan

And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

—Bible (NewTestament)

My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.

—Marvell, Andrew

Something of glass about her, of dead water, Chills and holds us, Far more fatal than painted flesh or the lodestone of live hair This despair of crystal brilliance.

—MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis

Wesit†and lookout attheboysintheir happy play†we kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the pane†and we go and stand before the glass.We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock† Then the curse begins to act upon us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfullyat a more healthy life; we are contented.We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God made bothöand yet he knows nothing of either.

—Iron

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

—Heywood,Thomas

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

—Barrymore,John

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply

—Millay, Edna St Vincent

Reachmea rose, honey, and pour mea last drop intothat there crystal glass.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

   Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenotcharity,Iam becomeassounding brass, ora tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all mygoodstofeed thepoor, and though Igivemy body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

—Bible (NewTestament)

And whenThyself with shining foot shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, And in thy joyous errand reach the spot Where I made oneöturn down an empty glass!

—Fitzgerald, Edward

Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.

—Lowndes,William

Venus, take my votive glass; Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be Venus never let me see.

—Prior, Matthew