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eyes:
1. The plural form of eye . Quotes:
(1) Jerry Stewart (Clark Gable) to Connie Randall (Carole Lombard) in No Man of Her Own (1932):
-- Babe: ' Do your eyes bother you? '
-- Connie : ' No. Why? '
-- Babe: ' They bother me .'
(2) Caesar (Warren William) to Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) in Cleopatra (1934): ' I picked a flower in Britain once - the color of your eyes .'
(3) Gloria Paterson (Helen Broderick) to Nicole De Cortillon (Danielle Darrieux) on how to catch a rich husband in The Rage of Paris (1938): ' The way to a man's heart is through his eyes, honey . That's the modern version. He believes what he sees , and takes bicarbonate of soda for his indigestion instead of a wife that can cook .'
(4) Olga (Dennie Moore), the manicurist, about Chrystal Allen (Joan Crawford) in The Women (1939): ' She's got those eyes that run up-and-down men like a searchlight .'
(5) Glenda Crawford (Betty Grable) about Ricardo Quintana (Don Ameche) in Down Argentine Way (1940): ' Your eyes, your remarkable eyes. ' If he ever looks into my eyes again he'll really see a storm over the pampas .'
(6) Larry Haines (Bob Hope) flirting with Karen Bentley (Madeleine Carroll) in My Favorite Blonde (1942): ' Are those your own eyes?... Both of 'em? '
(7) Sylvester the Great (Bob Hope) to Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) in The Princess and the Pirate (1944): ' Sit down and take a load off my eyes .'
(8) Rip Murdoch (Humphrey Bogart) to Carol Chandler (Lizabeth Scott) in Dead Reckoning (1947): ' Go ahead, put Christmas in your eyes and keep your voice low. Tell me about paradise and all the things I'm missing .'
(9) Nella Turner (Jane Russell) to Stack (Robert Ryan) in The Tall Men (1955): ' You know , for a fellah who doesn't do much talking, you've got real busy eyes. It's not that I mind being stared at. That's part of being a female. But I don't like to be weighed, measured and counted .'
(10) Charles (Laurence Olivier) to Elsie (Marilyn Monroe) in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957):-- Prince Charles: ' Your eyes! Twin pools of gladness and joy into which any man would be happy to drown himself .'-- Elsie: ' In both of them? '-- Prince Charles: ' In either of them .'
(11) Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda Park (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ' I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me .'
(12) Elena Montero (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in Zorro (1999): ' Something in his eyes captured me. I felt warm, feverish .'
(13) Laurence Shames. Sunburn : ' Bimbos eyes - you could look at them but never into them .'
2. Popular euphemism for a woman's breasts or nipples. See breasts for synonyms and euphemisms.
Quote: Famous pun by Mae West (Ann Julian) in Mae West (1986): ' Watch the eyes, boys! '
See Also: clap eyes on, clap one's eyes on, lay eyes on, lay one's eyes on, set one's eyes on, set eyes on, saucers, cut out the eye chatter, mud pies, take eyes at, mince pies, top lights, twinkers, typhlobasia, shutters, sights, skylights, slanters, spotters, squinters, optophobia, orbits, starry orbs, swivel eyes, saucer eyes, sees, seers, seekers, killers, lamps, make googly eyes at, peekers, peepholes, peeps, permanent mascara, piercers, pincers, queer peepers, weepers, windows, winkers, Nelly Blighs, oglers, ogles, oculars, oculii, ommatophobia, ommetaphobia, lens, lights, luminaries, flickers, flukers, front windows, ganderers, gimlet eyes, glaziers, gleeps, glass eyes, goggles, goggle eyes, clockers, cock eyes, deadlights, baby's cries, banjo eyes, bug eyes, bugging eyes, daylights, Chimaropia, dacryphilia, brown eye miner, blennorrhea, Irish beauty, have eyes only for, glimmers, glims, only have eyes for, windows of the soul, windows to the soul, tarantula eyes, come-on eye, the, make eyes at, make bedroom eyes at, eyes, come-hither eyes, eye, baby blues, make goo-goo eyes, throw eyes at, orbs, make sheep's eyes, come-hither look, bedroom eyes, amorous glance, blindfold, cutty-eye, sheep's eyes, short eyeballs, stare, tertiary syphilis, water works, waterworks, easy to look at, dacrylagnia, blindfolding, blinders, blinkers, baby-raper, buggers, chester, Chester the Molester, chi-mo, globes, headlights, headlamps, hepatitis C, in up to the gills, in up to the neck, jowl, goo-goo eye,
Quotes Containing eyes:
Laurence Shames. Sunburn: ''Bimbos eyes - you could look at them but never into them.''
Glenda Crawford (Betty Grable) about Ricardo Quintana (Don Ameche) in Down Argentine Way (1940): ''Your eyes , your remarkable eyes . If he ever looks into my eyes again he''ll really see a storm over the pampas.''
Laurence Shames. Sunburn: ''Bimbos eyes - you could look at them but never into them.''
Mae West (Ann Julian) in Mae West (1986): ''Watch the eyes , boys!''
Henny Youngman: ''I''ve kissed so many women I can do-it with my eyes closed.''
Woodrow Wyatt: 'A man falls in-love through his eyes , a woman through her ears. '
Joyce Mannering (Marilyn Monroe) clapping eyes on millionnaire Victor Macfarland (Zachary Scott) in Let''s Make It Legal (1951): ''My motor''s been running ever since I laid eyes on him.''
Laurence Shames. Sunburn: 'Bimbos eyes - you could look at them but never into them.'
Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier) in The Entertainer (1960): 'I'm dead behind these eyes .'
Cleo Borden (Mae West) in Goin'' to Town (1935): - Man: ''What''s the rush, where''s the fire?'' - Cleo: ''In your eyes , big boy , in your eyes .''
Olga (Dennie Moore), the manicurist, about Chrystal Allen (Joan Crawford) in The Women (1939): ''She''s got those eyes that run up-and-down men like a searchlight.''
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda Park (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ''I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me.''
Larry Haines (Bob Hope) to Karen Bentley (Madeleine Carroll) in My Favorite Blonde (1942): ''Are those your own eyes?... Both of ''em?''
Charles Lumley III (Henry Winkler) watching Belinda (Shelley Long) prepare breakfast in-a-sweat shirt and bobbies in Night Shift (1982): ''My eyes had a heart attack!''
Elena Montero (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in Zorro (1999): ''Something in his eyes captured me. I felt warm, feverish.''
Jim Brewster (Bob Hope) about (Betty Grable) in Give Me a Sailor (1938): ''And those eyes! Stop and go signals if ever I saw any.''
Sylvester Crosby/Sylvester the Great (Bob Hope) to Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) in The Princess and the Pirate (1944): ''Sit down and take a load off my eyes .''
Sung by Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich) in Destry Rides Again (1939): ''You''ve got that look, that look that leaves me weak / You with your eyes-across-the-table technique.''
Edmund Lowe in Seven Sinners (1936); ''Strappling wench with come-hither-eyes .''
Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce) in Frasier (1993): 'Her lips were saying: No, but her eyes were saying: Read my lips .'
Verne (Clark Gable) promising Julie (Joan Crawford) to escape prison just to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940): ''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
Caesar (Warren William) to Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) in Cleopatra (1934): ''I picked a flower in Britain once - the color of your eyes .''
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ''I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me.''
Molly Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck) to Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) in Union Pacific (1939): ''Sure there will be some girl there to throw sheep''s eyes at you.''
Jim Brewster (Bob Hope) about (Betty Grable) in Give Me a Sailor (1938): ''And those eyes! Stop and go signals if ever I saw any.''
William Shakespeare: ''Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind .''
Molly Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck) to Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) in Union Pacific (1939): ''Sure there will be some girl there to throw sheep''s eyes at you.''
Caesar (Warren William) to Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) in Cleopatra (1934): ''I picked a flower in Britain once, the color of your eyes .''
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ''I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me.''
Jim Brewster (Bob Hope) about (Betty Grable) in Give Me a Sailor (1938): ''And those eyes! Stop and go signals if ever I saw any.''
William Shakespeare: ''Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind .''
Jack Carter (Michael Caine) in Get Carter (1971): ''You know , I''d almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.''
Sir Percy Blakeney (Richard E. Grant) and his wife Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Elizabeth McGovern) in the mini TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel (1998): - Sir Percy : ''The poets tell us love is blind .'' - Lady Blakeney: ''The miracle of marriage opens our eyes .''
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) and his ex-wife Glenda Park (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980). - Nick: 'You know , your eyes lit up the moment you saw me again.' - Glenda: 'That battery's been dead a long time.'
Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson) coming home after a very bad dinner date in Terms of Endearment (1983). - Aurora:'Would you like to come in?' - Garret:'I'd rather stick needles in my eyes .'
Reporter Virgil Whitaker (Hugh O'Connell) flirting with Mary Donnell (Bette Davis) in That Certain Woman (1937): - Virgil:'Look into my big honest grey eyes .' - Mary: 'With a pair of long sharp finger nails. '
Jack Carter (Michael Caine) in Get Carter (1971): ''You know , I''d almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.''
Jack Carter (Michael Caine) in Get Carter (1971): ''You know , I''d almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.''
Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) to his bride Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) in Goin'' South (1978): ''Goddammit, I knew it! You can always tell a virgin on account the white of the eyes ain''t clear.''
Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) to his bride Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) in Goin'' South (1978): ''Goddammit, I knew it! You can always tell a virgin on account the white of the eyes ain''t clear.''
Dolores (Anjelica Huston) and Judah (Martin Landau) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): - Dolores Paley: 'You're an optomologist, do you agree the eyes are the windows of the soul?' - Judah Rosenthal: 'I believe they're windows , but I'm not sure it's the soul I see .'
Candace Robb. The Kings Bishop: 'That fair face is a mask... His eyes are mirrors, not windows .'
Bert Rigby (Robert Lindsay) to Meredith Perlstein (Anne Bancroft) in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989): 'I find you a very, very desirable woman and if you and I were to get-physical together my eyes would cross permanently and she'd [girlfirned] notice that.'
Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) about Felice (Lily Damita) making eyes at Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) in Fighting Caravans (1931): 'Look at her! A-wiggling and a-pouting and a-butting up with that rubber mouth of hers just like a snake putting a spell on a bird .'
Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) about Felice (Lily Damita) making eyes at Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) in Fighting Caravans (1931): ''Look at her! A-wiggling and a-pouting and a-butting up with that rubber mouth of hers just like a snake putting a spell on a bird .''
Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) about Felice (Lily Damita) making eyes at Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) in Fighting Caravans (1931): 'Look at her! A-wiggling and a-pouting and a-butting up with that rubber mouth of hers just like a snake putting a spell on a bird .'
''One day, that looking-glass will be the man who loves you. It''ll be his eyes maybe and you''ll look in that miror and you''ll be more than pretty, you''ll be beautiful.'' Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) to Lizzie (Katharine Hepburn) in The Rainmaker (1956)
Mrs. Morehead (Lucille Watson) to her daughter Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) in The Women (1939): ''A man has only one escape from his old self. To see a different self in the mirror of a woman''s eyes .''
'I've got oysters and champagne in the fridge. Why don't you come in for a bite .' The Countess to James Bond (Sean Connery) in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Verne (Clark Gable) to Julie (Joan Crawford) promising her to escape prison that night just to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940):''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
George (Ian Bannen) raising a toast in Hope and Glory (1987): ''I''m seventy-three years old. I''ve seen half the wonders of the world and I never laid eyes on a finer sight than the curve of Betty Browning''s breasts. ''
Fran (Dolores Moran) and Ethaniel (Jack Benny) in The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945): - Fran: ''Loot at me, darling . Can''t you see what my eyes are saying?'' - Ethaniel: ''Yes, and you oughta watch your language.''
Verne (Clark Gable) to Julie (Joan Crawford) promising to escape prison that night to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940): ''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) to his wife Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) in Goin'' South (1978): ''Goddammit, I knew it! You can always tell a virgin on account the white of the eyes ain''t clear.''
Nella Turner (Jane Russell) to Stack (Robert Ryan) in The Tall Men (1955): ''You know , for a fellah who doesn''t do much talking, you''ve got real busy eyes . It''s not that I mind being stared at. That''s part of being a female. But I don''t like to be weighed, measured and counted.''
Jerry Stewart (Clark Gable) to Connie Randall (Carole Lombard) in No Man of Her Own (1932): - Babe: ''Do your eyes bother you?'' - Connie : ''No. Why?'' - Babe: ''They bother me.''
Mrs. Morehead (Lucille Watson) to her daughter Mary (Norma Shearer) in The Women (1939): ''A man has only one escape from his old self. To see a different self in the mirror of a woman''s eyes .''
Charles (Laurence Olivier) to Elsie (Marilyn Monroe) in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957): - Prince Charles: ''Your eyes! Twin pools of gladness and joy into which any man would be happy to drown himself.'' - Elsie: ''In both of them?'' - Prince Charles: ''In either of them.''
Gloria Paterson (Helen Broderick) to Nicole De Cortillon (Danielle Darrieux) on how to catch a rich husband in The Rage of Paris (1938): ''The way to a man''s heart is through his eyes , honey . That''s the modern version. He believes what he sees , and takes bicarbonate of soda for his indigestion instead of a wife that can cook.''
Rip Murdoch (Humphrey Bogart) to Carol Chandler (Lizabeth Scott) in Dead Reckoning (1947): ''Go ahead, put Christmas in your eyes and keep your voice low. Tell me about paradise and all the things I''m missing.''
Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O''Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): ''I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we''re alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. (...) Scarlett! Look at me. I''ve loved you more than I''ve ever loved any woman and I''ve waited longer for you than I''ve ever waited for any woman . (...) Here''s a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You''re a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.''
Mrs. Ditmeyer (Jean Smart) slipping a letter (and her hand) into Greg Brady's (Christopher Daniel Barnes) pocket in The Brady Bunch Movie (1994). - Mrs. Ditmeyer: 'Your hands are full. Let me. My! You've gotten so big. You're almost as big as your daddy .' - Greg Brady: 'And I'm still growing.' - Mrs. Ditmeyer: 'Right before my very eyes . Your pants are so tight.'
Captain Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): 'I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we're alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. Scarlett! Look at me. I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman . Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.'
Lucy Trager (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her older sister Rebecca Trager Lott (Elizabeth Perkins) in Moonlight and Valentino (1995): - Lucy: 'I need your advice on moaning.' - Rebecca: 'Moaning?' - Lucy: 'Yeah. Now, is it better to moan or to act like you're stifling the moan, or just not to moan at all?' - Rebecca: 'Just be natural. Don't act , just be yourself.' - Lucy: 'Becky, we're not on a talk show, you know , you can tell me for real.' - Rebecca: 'Well, it's been a long time, but in my experience the best thing is to breathe very deeply at first . That way you bring him inside you first through his smell and then through the rhythm of your own breath until those places inside you start to tighten and to tingle until you hit the change. The change is where things really start happening on their own.' - Lucy: 'Hmm, and that's why I do the moaning.' - Rebecca: 'No, that's where you let-go .' - Lucy: 'Let go of what? You're being too vague. Start from the beginning and don't use phrases like 'places inside' and 'hitting the change'. What is that? Be specific, okay? When do I moan? I mean, how long should I do that breathing thing? Should I open my eyes?'
Lucy Trager (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her older sister Rebecca Trager Lott (Elizabeth Perkins) in Moonlight and Valentino (1995): - Lucy: ''I need your advice on moaning.'' - Rebecca: ''Moaning?'' - Lucy: ''Yeah. Now, is it better to moan or to act like you''re stifling the moan, or just not to moan at all?'' - Rebecca: ''Just be natural. Don''t act , just be yourself.'' - Lucy: ''Becky, we''re not on a talk show, you know , you can tell me for real.'' - Rebecca: ''Well, it''s been a long time, but in my experience the best thing is to breathe very deeply at first . That way you bring him inside you first through his smell and then through the rhythm of your own breath until those places inside you start to tighten and to tingle until you hit the change. The change is where things really start happening on their own.'' - Lucy: ''Hmm, and that''s why I do the moaning.'' - Rebecca: ''No, that''s where you let-go .'' - Lucy: ''Let go of what? You''re being too vague. Start from the beginning and don''t use phrases like ''places inside'' and ''hitting the change''. What is that? Be specific, okay? When do I moan? I mean, how long should I do that breathing thing? Should I open my eyes?''
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