Faces Quotes

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If only faces could talk... — Pat Summerall
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. — Gary Cooper
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the… — Joseph Conrad
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large… — Henry Ward Beecher
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely… — Charles Dickens
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. — John Quincy Adams
His face was filled with broken commandments. — John Masefield
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig. — Margot Asquith
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred… — Martial
He was trying to save both his faces. — John Gunther
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you… — Holly Lisle
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to… — Abraham Lincoln
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And… — Thomas Jefferson
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our… — Thomas Browne
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. — W. Somerset Maugham

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