Glass Houses Quotes

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

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.

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

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.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'

If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

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.

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.

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

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.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

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.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

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...

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

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.

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.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

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!

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.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.