Eyes

Famous quotes containing the word eyes:

    Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
    Otto Von Bismarck (1815–1898)

    Beshrew me but I love her heartily,
    For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
    And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
    And true she is, as she hath proved herself;
    And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true,
    Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.
    —Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)