Sea of upturned faces. [ Sir W. Scott ]
Fair faces need no paint. [ Proverb ]
Two faces under one hood. [ Proverb ]
The worst of faces still is human. [ Lavater ]
Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces. [ Proverb ]
The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world
Saints only have such faces. [ Longfellow ]
These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
And the bright faces of my young companions
Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more. [ Longfellow ]
The pleasant books, that silently among
Our household treasures take familiar places,
And are to us as if a living tongue
Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces! [ Longfellow ]
If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]
He is either a god or a painter, for he makes faces. [ Proverb ]
All men's faces are true, whatsoever their hands are. [ William Shakespeare ]
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours. [ Emerson ]
Those faces which have charmed us most escape us the soonest. [ Walter Scott ]
When an ass is among a parcel of monkeys, they all make faces at him. [ Proverb ]
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement. [ Emerson ]
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
There are faces so fluid with expression that we can hardly find what the mere features are. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. [ Dickens ]
It is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. [ J. G. Holland ]
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. [ Bovee ]
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. [ T. Parker ]
There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. [ Pascal ]
Ignorance,
says Ajax, is a painless evil;
so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
Repentance is for pale faces; they killed Christ, the good man. If Christ had come to red men, we would not have killed him. [ Red Jacket ]
The bad fortune of the good, turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad, bows their heads down to the earth. [ Sadi ]
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Our minds are as different as our faces; we are all travelling to one destination, - happiness; but few are going by the same road. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]
A face that had a story to tell. How different are faces in this particular! Some of them speak not; they are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date. [ Longfellow ]
There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other. [ Butler ]
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. [ Bacon ]
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]
Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable.
[ Zimmermann ]
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say. [ Emerson ]
I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. [ Maltbie Babcock ]