EYES in Classic Quotes

1  How I regretted that I could not see her eyes.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

2  I scanned them all insolently with my drowsy eyes.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

3  He looked at me in extreme amazement, with vacant eyes.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

4  Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII

5  "In the N---- office," I answered jerkily, with my eyes on my plate.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

6  They were all flushed, their eyes were bright: they had been drinking heavily.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

7  There was something unnatural in those two eyes, beginning to look at me only now.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

8  Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

9  Suddenly I saw beside me two wide open eyes scrutinising me curiously and persistently.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

10  The look in those eyes was coldly detached, sullen, as it were utterly remote; it weighed upon me.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

11  But whether I despised them or thought them superior I dropped my eyes almost every time I met anyone.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I

12  "Liza," she answered almost in a whisper, but somehow far from graciously, and she turned her eyes away.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

13  I even made experiments whether I could face so and so's looking at me, and I was always the first to drop my eyes.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I

14  For a long time we gazed at each other like that, but she did not drop her eyes before mine and her expression did not change, so that at last I felt uncomfortable.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

15  If they changed the dinner hour they ought at least to have let me know--that is what the post is for, and not to have put me in an absurd position in my own eyes and.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

16  I looked mechanically at the girl who had come in: and had a glimpse of a fresh, young, rather pale face, with straight, dark eyebrows, and with grave, as it were wondering, eyes that attracted me at once; I should have hated her if she had been smiling.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: V

17  This was a regular martyrdom, a continual, intolerable humiliation at the thought, which passed into an incessant and direct sensation, that I was a mere fly in the eyes of all this world, a nasty, disgusting fly--more intelligent, more highly developed, more refined in feeling than any of them, of course--but a fly that was continually making way for everyone, insulted and injured by everyone.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I