Homer Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

  Homer

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

• Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

  Homer

  Beach, Husband, Eye

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

• Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

  Homer

  Eye, Rage From The Iliad, Goddess

  Homer (1996). “Homer in English”, Penguin Group USA

• O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

  Homer

  Sports, Strong, Heart

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

• Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

  Homer

  Eye, Silence, Speech

  Homer, Alexander Pope (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.1072

• If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

  Homer

  Mother, Children, Father

• All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

  Homer

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

• I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

  Homer

  Country, Eye, Men

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

• O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

  Homer

  Children, Home, Eye

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

• But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
  So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

  Homer

  Eye, Names, Fame

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.218

• The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

  Homer

  Eye, Men, Feet

  Homer (2016). “The Iliad”, p.32, Homer

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