Eyes

Famous quotes containing the word eyes:

“Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts,
the pigs’ eyes followed him, a cheerful stare,
even to the sow that always ate her young—”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“Do not doubt it, he loves. Instructed by so many charms, his eyes have been trained in the use of tears.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)