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Faces Quotes by George Eliot
- Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit…
- Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his…
- A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the…
- What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring…
- Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice…
- Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
- The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way…
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.…
- Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
More Faces Quotes
- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- 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