Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Eye, Soul

• Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Sadness, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.166

• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Eye, Half

• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

• It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sex, Women, Heart

• God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Eye, World, Miserable

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