Top 8 Glare Quotes - Quoted Daily

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

James Thurber

Writing, Justice, Glare

James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Stephen Hawking

Government, Abuse, Glare

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Mary Oliver

Humility, Mind, Glare

Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.214, Penguin

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

Herman Melville

Glitter, Opulence, Glare

Herman Melville (2016). “Herman Melville The Dover Reader”, p.505, Courier Dover Publications

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

George Washington

Office, Glare, Admire

George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.177

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

Rachel Cohn

Lying, Order, Glare

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers