You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never toadmittheminyoursight, orallow their namesto be mentioned in your hearing.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.57.

Le toucher est le plus de¤  mystificateur de tous les sens, a'   la diffe¤  rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:4.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 5:7.

   Und der Haifisch, der hat Z a« hne Und die tr a« gt er im Gesicht Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer Doch das Messer sieht man nicht. Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack-knife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps it out of sight.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Die Dreigroschenoper ('The Threepenny Opera'), prologue (translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett,1970).

And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black;önor white so very white.

-Canning, George
  'New Morality', l.199^200.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under the sun.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Chartism, ch.4.

Wellcome, all Wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Summer in Winter, Day in Night. Heaven in Earth and God in Man.

-Crashaw, Richard
  'Hymn of the Nativity' (published1652), l.79.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

-Donne,John
  Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir  William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

   London, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, someliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght; Of most delectable lusty ladies bright; Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall; Of merchauntis full of sybstaunce and myght; London, thou art the flour of Cities all.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
c.1501  'To the City of London', attributed to'A Rhymer of Scotland'. Dunbar was a member of the Scots party negotiating the marriage of  James I V to Margaret Tudor, and is popularly credited with the verse.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  The Mill on the Floss, bk.1, ch.10.

On the summit of the precipice and in the deep green woods emotions as palpable and as true have agitated me as if I were surveying them with the blessing of sight. There was an intelligence in the winds of the hills and in the solemn stillness of the buried foliage that could not be misleading. It entered into my heart and I could have wept, notthat Ididnot see, butthat Icould not portrayall I felt.

-Holman,James
  A Voyage round the World.

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza, and our James!

-Jonson, Ben
  'To the Memory of My Beloved,  the  Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us', prefatorydedicationto the first folio of Shakespeare's plays.

We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
  On the Vietnam War. In Foreign  Affairs,  Jan.

What a wonderful sight, a full houseömy mother would have loved it!

-Macarthur,James
  Speaking at the memorial service at NewYork's Shubert's Theater for his mother, Helen Hayes. Reported in the NewYork Times,19  Jun.

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.11^16.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood theTree of Life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death theTree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218^24.

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

-Milton,John
   Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.896^91.

If it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th'eye confin'd?

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.91^4.