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Eye Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.
- It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
- The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
- The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the…
- She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing…
- Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does…
- The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though…
- It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila