"The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue." — Johann Kaspar Lavater
"The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue."
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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93 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater has 93 quotes on this site.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am…
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness…
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Where pride begins, love ceases.
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith…
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Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
— Honore de Balzac
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
— Les Brown
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more…
— Joseph Addison
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
— John Aubrey
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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