Countenance Quotes
153 quotes by 122 authors
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
— Honore de Balzac
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
— Les Brown
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me!…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face.…
— John Aubrey
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
— William Hazlitt
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of…
— Charles Lamb
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to…
— Boethius
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