Countenance Quotes

153 quotes by 122 authors

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner… — Lynn G. Robbins
The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our… — Ezra Taft Benson
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse... — William Shakespeare
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character. — Theodore Parker
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since wages were paid… — Ann Coulter
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its… — Obafemi Awolowo
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy… — Petrarch
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient… — Ruth Perry
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or… — Marvin J. Ashton
With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where… — Richard III of England
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love,… — S. D Gordon
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing… — Sallust
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Gertrude Bacon
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the… — Fanny Burney
The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. — Julia Marlowe
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in… — Karl Mannheim

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