Beast Quote by Georges Bernanos

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied....

— Max Beerbohm

“Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as we choose,…

— Kyo Maclear

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

— Marcel Proust

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

— Bryant H. McGill

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Why do we hide behind such ugly faces?

— Jenna Bognar

This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery…

— Philippe Halsman

“Why do humans never really learn the lessons we are supposed to? What is in our makeup, in fact, that draws us to that…

— Harlan Coben

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from…

— Michel de Montaigne

“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an…

— Gene Wolfe