Countenance quotes:

Send

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. -- Thomas Fuller
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. -- Charles Dickens
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. -- Honore de Balzac
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. -- Pierre Salinger
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. -- Isaac Barrow
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. -- Les Brown
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. -- Jeremy Collier
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. -- Charles Dickens
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. -- Giacomo Casanova
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. -- Arthur Helps
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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 stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. -- Charles Dickens
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. -- Solomon
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse... -- William Shakespeare
The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. -- Julia Marlowe
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science -- William Wordsworth
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. -- Joseph Addison
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. -- W. H. Auden
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances -- Petrarch
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. -- Marcus Aurelius
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance -- Fanny Burney
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them. -- Laurence Sterne
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. -- Sallust
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. -- King Solomon
David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard. -- Lord George Gordon
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance. -- Frances Burney
For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance. -- Mariella Frostrup
Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. -- Chaim Potok
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. -- Ellen G. White
O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer. -- Isaac of Nineveh
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you. -- Jim Caviezel
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. -- Tony Kushner
It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
A troubled countenance oft discloses much. -- Seneca the Younger
Study nature as the countenance of God. -- Charles Kingsley
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage. -- Ovid
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation. -- Henry Fielding
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors. -- John Lyly
the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ... -- Anna Katharine Green
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit. -- Ben Jonson
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! -- Ovid
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. -- Benjamin Franklin
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss. -- Publilius Syrus
I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. -- Edmund Spenser
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. -- Benjamin Franklin
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.] -- Ovid
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few. -- Seneca the Younger
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance. -- Victor Hugo
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. -- George Washington
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. -- Philip Sidney
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. -- Livy
Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave. -- Else Lasker-Schuler
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. -- John Milton
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. -- John Keats
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. -- Ovid
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns. -- Seneca the Younger
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. -- Michel de Montaigne
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. -- Kate Ross
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. -- Francis Bacon
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. -- Jonathan Swift
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. -- Joseph Hall
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one. -- Lord Chesterfield
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. -- George Henry Borrow
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation. -- Saadi
A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character. -- Theodore Parker
Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. -- Charles Lamb
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. -- James Russell Lowell
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. -- Philip Sidney
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty. -- Lynn G. Robbins
May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior -- Lynn G. Robbins
May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior" -- Lynn G. Robbins
The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please. -- Alexandre Dumas
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches. -- Hans Christian Andersen
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation. -- Herman Melville
I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's. -- William Penn
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! -- Pierre Corneille
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. -- Boethius
Don't be afraid to try, because you never look back on life and smile at what you could have attempted. Joy only brightens your countenance over those things you did attempt. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. -- Bill Vaughan
The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways. -- Alberto Giacometti
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. -- Benjamin Franklin
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain. -- Aristotle
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space. -- Herman Melville
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. -- Washington Irving
The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust. -- Mitt Romney
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books-- I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. -- Edmund Spenser
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose. -- William Matthews
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance. -- Lord Chesterfield
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. -- Alexander Pope

Send