"Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is……" — Peter De Vries

"Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is."

— Peter De Vries

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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

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More Blindness Quotes

This quote is filed under Blindness Quotes, one of 305 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so… — Andrea Bocelli
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. — Margaret Cho
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day… — Paulo Coelho
He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect.… — Henry Ward Beecher
I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all… — Unknown Author
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us… — Charles Caleb Colton
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than… — George Eliot

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