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Faces Quotes by Charles Dickens
- 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…
- We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done…
- But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
- I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you,…
- 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…
- When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What…
- Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
- Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
- 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…
- Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face…
- She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked…
- It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is…
- I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze…
- I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case…
- ...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it
- If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak,…
- Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle…
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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
- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman