Quotes About Perception

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing.

The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch—a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Everything that gristles is not gold.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

The little dogs and all,Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

In thy face I seeThe map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,Lives not alone immured in the brain.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savor but themselves.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;A vapor sometime like a bear or lion,A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,A forked mountain, or blue promontoryWith trees upon 't.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

And give to dust that is a little giltMore laud than gilt o'er-dusted.

Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.