A Quote by George Herbert

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.

George Herbert

Quote Topics

Makes

Quote Author

George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

John Maeda

Love makes a good eye squint.

George Herbert

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

Cat Deeley

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

With a sort of mental squint.

Lewis Carroll

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

Ovid

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

George Bernard Shaw

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

Meg Rosoff

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.

John Dryden

You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

Cecelia Ahern

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Lewis Carroll

If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.

Travis Beacham

These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered."

Lidia Yuknavitch

I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.