I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.