One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that…

“Mrs. Loontwill’s face, that of a pretty woman who had aged without realizing it, screwed itself up into a grimace Alexia supposed was meant…

— Gail Carriger

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.”

— Ingmar Bergman

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should…

— Georgette Heyer

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to…

— Koren Zailckas

In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“With an apologetic grimace, I give his cheek a pat pat, praying a portal to another universe will appear and swallow me up. It…

— Angie Hockman

“He straightened, seeming to draw himself up. Looking Harry in the eye. “Do what you're going to do, lad. I've never begged a man…

— Stephen England

“Every time you write a comment, you should grimace and feel the failure of your ability of expression.”

— Robert C. Martin

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

— Katherine Applegate

I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And…

— Samuel Beckett

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man…

— Ben Stein

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

— Jerome Stern