White Eye Patch

Famous quotes containing the words white, eye and/or patch:

    “Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error, for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
    Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
    O that that earth which kept the world in awe
    Should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)