Countenance Quotes

153 quotes by 118 authors

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
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. — Les Brown
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
""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
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
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
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
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
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
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. — Jonathan Swift
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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