William Shakespeare Quotes About Eyes

• The Eyes are the window to your soul

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Soul, Window

• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

• Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Beautiful Women

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.210

• If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lying, Writing

  Sonnet 17

• And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.438

• A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  "William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

• Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Soul, Doe

• Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Art, Love You

  Sonnet 18

• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Agents, Negotiation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.41

• Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes;
  Nothing of him that doth fade,
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Pain, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

• For she had eyes and chose me.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Love And Jealousy

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.173, BookCaps Study Guides

• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

• Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Home, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.324

• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Glasses, Society

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [175]

• As love is full of unbefitting strains,
  All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
  Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
  Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
  Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
  To every varied object in his glance

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

• And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Eye, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.308, Cengage Learning EMEA

• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

• They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.118

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