Sore Eyes Quotes

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

Jonathan Swift

Eye, Sight

Polite Conversation "First Conversation" (1738)

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You're a parasite for sore eyes.

Gregory Ratoff

Sarcastic, Eye, Parasites

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the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Charles Dickens

Eye, Sight

Charles Dickens (2012). “David Copperfield”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.

Morrie Ryskind

Eye, Sight, Gone

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Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.

Tim Vine

Eye, Site

"Tim Vine's one-liners - what is his best joke? - poll" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. February 10, 2012.

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Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

Adam Smith

Eye, Men, Empathy

Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.10

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Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

William Shakespeare

Hurt, Book, Eye

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

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