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Quotes About Eyes

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
~ Edith Wharton
The Countess Olenska was the only young woman at the dinner; yet, as Archer scanned the smooth plump elderly faces between their diamond necklaces and towering ostrich feathers, they struck him as curiously immature compared with hers. It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
~ Edith Wharton
Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed
~ Edith Wharton
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deep And eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep.
~ Edith Wharton
Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes. What Claydon read there—or at least such scattered
~ Edith Wharton
The convent was a gray stone building with hundreds of small square curtainless windows, like so many eyes spying out on the wet sinful town.
~ Edna O'Brien
Solveig was higher up than me. She had a white apron. She was the cook. Sieving and singing hymns that her pastor in Sweden had taught her. Her eyes were the beautiful twinkling blue of a sleeping doll.
~ Edna O'Brien
Her eyes opened. They were like petals submerged in tiny bowls of unchanged water.
~ Edward Anderson
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
~ Albert Einstein
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Night doesn't fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Os olhos conseguem dizer com eloquência desconhecida as palavras, provavelmente porque a dos olhos foi a primeiríssima linguagem com que aprendemos a nos comunicar.
~ Aldo Carotenuto
Una mirada desde la alcantarilla puede ser una visión del mundo, la rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta pulverizarse los ojos.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Blue eyes as a response to this death right next to me, which speaks to me and is me.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Las sombras esconden varios puntos oscuros que giran y giran entre tus ojos mi pluma retarda el TÚ anhelante mi sien late mil veces TU nombre
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Return as ever. Your eyes are my only conveyance to death's other face.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Sus ojos eran la entrada del templo, para mí, que soy errante, que amo y muero. Y hubiese cantado hasta hacerme una con la noche, hasta deshacerme desnudarte en la entrada del templo.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
his brown eyes are intoxicating, and in that moment, I see my escape.
~ Alex Flinn
You've got me hypnotized. I'm certainly mesmerized. I thought I was wise; Till I gazed in your beautiful eyes.
~ Alex Flinn Bewitching
The love of Christ remained for them throughout life a thing passing knowledge; and the longer they lived, the more cordially did they acknowledge the truth of their Master's words: "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet's eyes And laughter - from some whore.
~ Alexander Blok
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.
~ Alexander Pope
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~ Alexander Pope
It'd taken another half hour under the shower to peel his throbbing eyes open and get rid of the stench of cheap whiskey and even cheaper cigars.
~ Alexandra Ivy