|
|
|
A man finds room in the few square inches of
his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of
all his history, and his wants. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of
Life
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in
them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may
read our natures. — Sir Thomas Browne
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. — Author
Unknown
I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are
quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each
person has several. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks of Malte Laurids
Brigge
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty -
they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. — Martin
Buxbaum
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult
like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of
kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most
wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends
speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor
Hugo
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of
fiction. — Oscar Wilde
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of
faces, there should be none alike. — Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. — William
Shakespeare
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its
intentions. — Cicero
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there.
His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his
eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on
the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges
of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the
frozen sweep of the Erie. — Toni Morrison
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. —
Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud
of that. — Lauren Bacall
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. —
Cynthia Ozick, The Paris Review
 |
 |
Quotations about Faces