People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time. — Art Buchwald
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. — Karl Pilkington
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. — American Proverbs
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. — English Proverbs
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. — Mervyn Peake
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. — Dale Chihuly
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. — Marc Chagall
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand — Andrew Solomon
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. — Robert McAfee Brown
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it? — Pete Doherty
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass. — Luis Barragan
Short Glass Houses Quotes
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Kahlil Gibran
Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well. — Henrik Ibsen
Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. — Perry Como
Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense. — Rick Riordan
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful that you have a glass, and there is something in it.
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around. — Peter Zumthor
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. — Bernard Goldberg
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful. — Philip Johnson
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. — Philip Johnson
If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate? — Philip Wollen
There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone. — Vladimir Nabokov
You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house
And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth
Cause I'll break your face... — 50 Cent
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows. — P. G. Wodehouse
Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. — George Herbert
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. — Yehuda Amichai
There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation. — Demetri Martin
At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation. — Eknath Easwaran
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. — Chic Murray
The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house. — Susan Powter
Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes. — Dan Johnson
Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it. — Gary Larson
Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. — William Mountford
I vape with my parents in my house. My parents don't really get high, which bums me out. But I vape with them around. It's just like a glass of wine. The family of the future is parents and kids who get high together. That is crazy to me, but it's so cool. I like the fact that my parents are fine with it, even if they won't do it with me. — Ilana Glazer
Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond. — Francesca Woodman
I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in. — Eva Longoria
Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls. — Laurie Beth Jones
I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond. — Andre Breton
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record. — Gavin DeGraw
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city. — Charles Portis
The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house — Heidi Roizen
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud. — Alexis Arguello
People who live in glass houses should take out insurance. — Unknown
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses) — Rachel Caine
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances. — E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth! — Edith Wharton
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days. — Clement Attlee
They don't know they're living in a glass house. — Douglas Wilson
People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house. — Ellen DeGeneres
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. — Josef Albers
We will fight back against attacks on Latinos, on African-Americans, on women, on Muslims, on immigrants, on disabled Americans, on everyone. Whether Donald Trump sits in a glass tower or sits in the White House, we will not give an inch on this. Not now, not ever. — Elizabeth Warren
In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool. — Paris Hilton
[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there's a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they'll go "Bwrrrrrrrr!" You know, sort of wander away shuddering. — Charlie Brooker
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