Countenance Quotes

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. (Isaac Barrow)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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. View quote
Charles Dickens
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. View quote
Les Brown
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. View quote
Joseph Addison
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. View quote
Thomas Fuller
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily. View quote
William Hazlitt
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)
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. View quote
George Borrow
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. View quote
John Aubrey
And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my Bow of burning gold, Bring me my Arrows of desire, Bring me my Spear - O clouds, unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant land. View quote
William Blake
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. View quote
William Wordsworth
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
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. View quote
Herman Melville
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance. (Karl Mannheim)
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. View quote
John Milton
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. View quote
Tony Kushner
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore. View quote
Charles Cooley
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. View quote
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet