Countenance Quotes

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Study nature as the countenance of God.

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

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.