"God gave man an upright countenance to survey……" — Ovid

More Countenance Quotes

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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
• The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac
• Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. — Les Brown
• The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more… — Joseph Addison
• An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a… — John Aubrey
• Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
• 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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