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Quotes About Glance

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Exit our Miss Mel. Exit Friend Tim. When I glanced over my shoulder, Max Friedlander had disappeared—a remarkable feat, considering that there was nowhere on that side of the hole for him to go except into the Chronicle building. But he can't have gone in there. His soul would have been ripped instantly from his body while demons sucked out his life force.
~ Meg Cabot
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them. They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
kept glancing uneasily
~ Beatrix Potter
Phoebe fastened her seat belt, then gave him a quick glance. Her heart did a one and a half somersault with a half twist at the sight of his profile. He looked good enough to be on a coin.
~ Susan Mallery
ankles. The woman turned just once at the
~ Josephine Cox
It had started with a smile, a word, a teasing glance. Every second he had spent in her presence it had grown, until he'd reached this moment, and he suddenly knew. He loved her.
~ Julia Quinn
What are you smiling about?" Benedict demanded. She didn't bother to glance up as she replied, "I'm plotting your demise.
~ Julia Quinn
Glance is the enemy of vision.
~ Ezra Pound
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Yeats got it. O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
~ Bono
So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved": the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.
~ Booth Tarkington
The doorman took my suitcase and sneaked an admiring glance at Terese before giving me the universal man-to-man smirk that said, Lucky bastard. The
~ Harlan Coben
Duran Duran blared from the car stereo. The woman, two silver bracelets on the hand she dangled out the window, cast a glance in my direction. I could have been a Denny's restaurant sign or a traffic signal, it would have been no different. She was your regular sort of beautiful young woman, I guess. In a TV drama, she'd be the female lead's best friend, the face that appears once in a cafe scene to say, What's the matter? You haven't been yourself lately.
~ Haruki Murakami
again and again we fall hopelessly into the foolish error of thinking that Nature sets a special stamp on outstanding individuals so that they may be recognized at a glance.
~ Stefan Zweig
Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?
~ Stephanie Barron
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.
~ Rashida Jones
At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?" "No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!
~ Ilona Andrews
Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
~ Blaise Pascal
My mother said you had excellent taste . . . except for your preference for brunettes." He glanced at me just before his very fine, very firm naked ass disappeared into his massive walk-in closet. "What brunettes?" "Ooh, nicely done." Day, Sylvia (2012-05-24). Bared to You (Crossfire, Book 1) (p. 190). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
~ Sylvia Day
At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me.
~ Tahir Shah