Jeepers Creepers – where’d you get them peepers? Johnny Mercer, song 1938
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Mr Squeers
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams that the imagination awake. Leonardo da Vinci
The eyes are the mirror of the soul. Yiddish proverb
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. G K Chesterton
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes
Might furnish crowns for all the queens on Earth. Philip James Bailey, Festus
Her eye (I’m very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash’d an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chansten’d down the whole. Lord Byron, Don Juan 1:60
With eyes that look’d into the very soul ...
Bright – and as black and burning as coal. ibid. IV:94
The All-Seeing Eye or Third Eye is the key to communication with these beings (Sixth Sense). Labyrinth of Truth
Smoke Gets in your Eyes. Otto Harbach, song 1933
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22&23
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Matthew 18:9
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye. Luke 6:41&42
Blessed are the eyes which see the things which ye see. Luke 10:23
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
The anatomy of the human eye, in fact, shows anything but ‘intelligence’ in its design. It is built upside down and backwards, requiring photons of light to travel through the cornea, lens, aqueous fluid, blood vessels, ganglion cells, amacrine cells, horizontal cells, and bipolar cells before they reach the light-sensitive rods and cones that transduce the light signals ... Why would an intelligent designer have built an eye upside down and backwards? Michael Shermer
‘And that is the source of all my nightmares: I’m always gazed at by those eyes that I didn’t close.’ The Act of Killing, Sky Atlantic 2016
Let’s close our eyes and see what happens. Jimmy Greaves
Wanna cry, wanna croon.
Wanna laugh like a loon.
It’s that Old Devil Moon in your eyes. Yip Harburg, song 1946
God: What are you doing now?
King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord.
God: Well don’t. It’s just like those miserable hymns. Always so depressing. Now knock it off. Monty Python’s The Holy Grail 1975 starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Pain & Neil Innes & Connie Booth & Carol Cleveland et al, directors Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
It’s my eyes holding me back. Trailer Park Boys s3e2: Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor, Bubbles
The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost’s eyes. Steve Coppell, Radio Five Live