“Vote!' [Saint] George rolled his eyes. 'This is an assassination, not a debating society.”
Tom Holt book Paint Your Dragon
c. 7
Paint Your Dragon (1996)
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English Romantic poet 1795–1821Related quotes
William Collins (1721–1759) English poet, born 1721
Source: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 57. Compare: "Sweetest melodies / Are those that are by distance made more sweet", William Wordsworth, Personal Talk, stanza 2.
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto V, line 33
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.”
Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly
Source: Three to Get Deadly
