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“The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” - 1594

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” - 1902

“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” - 1889

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Shut your eyes and see.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“For she had eyes and chose me.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“It is a basilisk unto mine eye, kills me to look on't.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“For there is none of you so mean and base, that hath not noble lustre in your eyes.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” - 1952

“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“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.” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Her eyes were fine, but so large that they seemed to be bending beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in an ill humour.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.” George MacDonald, “The Princess and the Goblin” - 1872

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

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