Quotes about wink
A collection of quotes on the topic of wink, eye, likeness, life.
Quotes about wink

Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim (1988)

Mira Bai, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ENaRTjQRMaIC&pg=PT329

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.

“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956

Variant: That's not precisely what I had in mind."
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
Source: Outlander

“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”

"Epitaph" from Smart Set (December 1921)
1920s

“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?”
“A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.”
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

Source: before 1960, "Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writings", p. 15

Warning to criminals.
Pressure Mounts on Spitzer to Resign Over Sex Scandal, PBS NewsHour, March 11, 2008, 2012-10-15 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june08/spitzer_03-11.html,

The Girl Can't Help It, first sung by Little Richard
Song lyrics

"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" (1922)

Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 1
The Murder of History, critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan, 1993

Poem: The Jackdaw of Rheims http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

The Owl-Critic, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Article The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks for Truthout newsletter, December 6, 2010 http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20101206.htm.
Quotes 2010s, 2010

“That nicht he sleipit never ane wink,
Bot still did on the Ladie think.”
The Historie of ane Nobil and Wailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum (1550), line 899

Het stomende dubbelinterview: Natalia en Anastacia http://www.humo.be/humo-archief/29756/het-stomende-dubbelinterview-natalia-en-anastacia, Humo, September 27, 2010.
General Quotes

The Duel, st. 1 http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/theduel.html
Love Songs of Childhood (1894)
Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

I Asked a Thief
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

Twitter post https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1053642303372386304 (20 October 2018)
2010s, 2018

1990s, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)

“To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both eyes, is easier than to think.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 3, “Pseudoscience” (p. 67; quoting William Cowper)

1990s, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)
THE EARLY VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL: II. CHA.N.DÎ DÂS http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/ia/evp2.htm By JOHN BEAMES, B.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c.

"Motormouth Megyn Meets her Match," http://www.quarterly-review.org/motormouth-megyn-meets-her-match/The Quarterly Review, August 21, 2015.
2010s, 2015
East (1975), Scene 17

Étude Réaliste.
Undated

Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (9 September 1918), quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 343
1910s

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (1986)

“Justice may wink a while, but see at last.”
Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough (1621).

Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740).

Hans Freudenthal (1977), Weeding and Sowing: Preface to a Science of Mathematical Education, p. 56

“Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”
Letter to William J. Kennedy (29 October 1959), p. 192
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

“There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.”
Siuan Sanche
(15 September 1992)

Falsehood in Wartime (1928), Introduction
Context: War being established as a recognized institution to be resorted to when Governments quarrel, the people are more or less prepared. They quite willingly delude themselves in order to justify their own actions. They are anxious to find an excuse for displaying their patriotism, or they are disposed to seize the opportunity for the excitement and new life of adventure which war opens out to them. So there is a sort of national wink, everyone goes forward, and the individual, in his turn, takes up lying as a patriotic duty. In the low standard of morality which prevails in war-time, such a practice appears almost innocent.

“The eye in his hand winked at him dourly. Eye was a tough old gump, not given to easy enthusiasms.”
Comments on Roadstrum speaking to the pickled eye he carries in his pocket, in Ch. 8
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: The eye in his hand winked at him dourly. Eye was a tough old gump, not given to easy enthusiasms. Roadstrum put it back in his pocket and once more contemplated his good fortune.

“And then a light winked like an eye.
. . . And very many miles away”
Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Context: p>Was it not better so to lie?
The fight was done. Even gods tire
Of fighting... My way was the wrong.
Now I should drift and drift along
To endless quiet, golden peace...
And let the tortured body cease.And then a light winked like an eye.
... And very many miles away
A girl stood at a warm, lit door,
Holding a lamp. Ray upon ray
It cloaked the snow with perfect light.
And where she was there was no night
Nor could be, ever. God is sure,
And in his hands are things secure.</p

Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 1

Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage