Countenance Quotes

153 quotes by 122 authors

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. — Thomas Fuller
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will… — Charles Dickens
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. — Charles Dickens
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. — Charles Dickens
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no… — Arthur Helps
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as… — Ellen G. White
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the… — Jane Austen
Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo… — Brigham Young
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to… — Washington Irving
What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and… — James E. Faust
He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I… — Charlotte Bronte
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked… — Howard Thurman
Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb,… — Stephen R. Lawhead
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms… — Kate Morton
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are… — Jane Austen

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