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Face Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
- Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the…
- The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their…
- He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and…
- The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury…
- They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
- A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
- Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
- Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
- When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her…
- A mask tells us more than a face.
- Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such…
- I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do…
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- If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
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- I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
- It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's… — Red Adair