Countenance Quotes

153 quotes by 122 authors

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. — Joseph Hall
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in… — David Foster Wallace
May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your… — Lynn G. Robbins
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be… — John Andreas Widtsoe
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. — Pierre Salinger
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; I trow that… — Mathew Roydon
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. — Benjamin Franklin
I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in… — Thomas Jefferson
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. — Isaac Barrow
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter,… — Lord Chesterfield
The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus' coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to His people. Like… — Ellen G. White
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to… — Joseph Story
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. — John Milton
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. — Jeremy Collier
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers… — William Shakespeare
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten… — Charles Dickens
How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no… — Charlotte Bronte

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