First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books;… — Mathew Roydon Copy Share Image
The Saints in Heaven through the Holy Spirit behold the glory of God and the beauty of the Lord's Countenance. But in… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character… — Laurette Taylor Copy Share Image
Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them… — Ben Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to… — Lord George Gordon Copy Share Image
The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books--… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
