27 quotes about Eyes

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

— Auden, W. H.

The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good.

— Bible

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

— Bovee, Christian Nevell

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

— Browne, Sir Thomas

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

— Carlyle, Thomas

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

— Cicero, Marcus T.

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

— Davies, Robertson

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

— Dickens, Charles

The eye is easily frightened.

— Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

— Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

— Franklin, Benjamin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

— Franklin, Benjamin

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

— Galsworthy, John

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

— Horace

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

— Keller, Helen

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

— Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

— Milton, John

Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.

— Pope, Alexander

An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.

— Powers, H.

The eye is the mirror of the soul.

— Proverb

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.

— Proverb

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

— Proverb, German

Do everything as in the eye of another.

— Seneca

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

— Syrus, Publilius

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

— Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The eye is the jewel of the body.

— Thoreau, Henry David

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

— Wonder, Stevie