Quotes
Quotes about Eyes
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.
Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.
Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.]
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind With your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice.
Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.
Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.
Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
