Countenance Quotes

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

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.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

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.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

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.

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.

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

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.

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.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

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.

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin