Black Eyes Quotes

• A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

  Evan Esar

  Eye, Black, Curiosity

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• A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Eye, Dark, Blue

  William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

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• What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

  Elmore Leonard

  Eye, Men, Two

  "Fictional character: Darryl". "Be Cool", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Heaven, Black

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• Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Black

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• She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Eye, Emotional, Two

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• The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pain, Eye, Giving

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2013

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• Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mean, Eye, Black

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

  Phoebe Cary

  Eye, Black, Half

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.90

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• Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Giving, Black

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.208, A&C Black

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

  Jim Henson

  Beauty, Stupid, Humor

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• The silence is death.
  It comes each day with its shock
  to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
  and peck at the black eyes
  and the vibrating red muscle
  of my mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, White, Bird

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

  Merle Shain

  Eye, Men, Sight

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Nursing

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Rose, Black

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.246, Penguin

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• Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

  Curtis Jackson

  Kids, Eye, Fighting

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• I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Girl, Eye, Red Lipstick

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• They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

  Omar Sharif

  Eye, Hair, Black

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• Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?

  Lauren Kate

  Sweet, Eye, Giving

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• "Victoria?" she hissed. "Laurent?" I nodded, a teensy bit alarmed by the expression in her black eyes. I pointed at my chest. "Danger magnet, remember?"

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Expression, Black

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Eye, Dark

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

  Jim Goad

  Eye, Years, Two

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• [On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.

  Dolly Parton

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Eye, Two

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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