Quotes of: Countenance Keyword

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled ...

Ivanhoe

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Thomas Fuller

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

King Solomon

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Honore de Balzac

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautifu...

The Madman

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Charles Dickens

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

Pierre Salinger

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

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

The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude.

Etiquette

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

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

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Charles Dickens

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Isaac Barrow

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Jeremy Collier

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

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

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

What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration.

James E. Faust