Human face divine. [ Milton ]
The magic of a face. [ Thomas Carew ]
Sea of upturned faces. [ Sir W. Scott ]
A face without a heart. [ William Shakespeare ]
As expressive as the face. [ N. P. Willis ]
A good face needs no paint. [ Proverb ]
Behind a frowning providence
God hides a shining face. [ William Cowper ]
A fair face and a foul heart. [ Proverb ]
For my soul prays, Sweet,
Still to your face in Heaven,
Heaven in your face, Sweet. [ Francis Thompson ]
A fair face is half a portion. [ Proverb ]
A fair face and a foul bargain. [ Proverb ]
Plain as a nose in a man's face. [ Rabelais ]
Pride will spit in pride's face. [ Proverb ]
He had a face like a benediction. [ Cervantes ]
The eye is the pearl of the face. [ Proverb ]
The countenance
Is more eloquent than the tongue. [ Lavater ]
Honest labour bears a lovely face. [ T. Dekker ]
The worst of faces still is human. [ Lavater ]
Face to face, the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]
A fair face may hide a foul heart. [ Proverb ]
An handsome bodied man in the face. [ Proverb ]
Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. [ John Dryden ]
Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
He looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man. [ Longfellow ]
Face to face; a private conversation. [ French ]
Death upon his face
Is rather shine than shade,
A tender shine by looks beloved made. [ Mrs. Browning ]
She listen'd with a flitting blush.
With downcast eyes, and modest grace,
For well she knew I could not choose
But gaze upon her face. [ Coleridge ]
Beauty carries its dower in its face. [ Danish Proverb ]
Thy face the index of a feeling mind. [ Crabbe ]
The wind in one's face makes one wise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. [ James Ellis ]
A good fame is better than a good face. [ Proverb ]
A face like nestling luxury of flowers. [ Gerald Massey ]
And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth
And that was shining on him. [ Byron ]
His breast with wounds unnumbered riven,
His back to earthy his face to heaven. [ Byron ]
In youth, the artless index of the mind. [ Horace Mann ]
The heart's meteors tilting in the face. [ William Shakespeare ]
The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world
Saints only have such faces. [ Longfellow ]
Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes. [ Proverb ]
Give me a look, give me a face.
That makes simplicity a grace:
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [ Ben Jonson ]
Features, the great soul's apparent seat. [ Bryant ]
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]
He who beholds her hand forgets her face. [ Mrs. Brooks ]
A handsome face is a mute recommendation.
The face that cannot smile is never fair. [ Martial ]
Trust not too much to an enchanting face. [ Virgil ]
Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven shined bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place. [ Spenser ]
A shy face is better than a forward heart. [ Cervantes ]
The ass knows well in whose face he brays. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want can quench the eye's bright grace. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
A February face,
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness! [ William Shakespeare ]
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. [ William Shakespeare ]
Angels contented with their face in heaven.
Seek not the praise of men. [ Milton ]
See Time has touched me gently in his race.
And left no odious furrows in my face. [ Crabbe ]
These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Till sorrow seemed to wear one common face. [ Congreve ]
But inborn worth that fortune can control,
New strung and stiffer bent her softer soul.
The heroine assumed the woman's place;
Confirmed her mind, and fortified her face. [ Dryden ]
Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters. [ William Shakespeare ]
One hand washeth another, and both the face. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The mind, the music breathing from her face. [ Byron ]
The countenance is the portrait of the soul. [ Cicero ]
A proud look makes foul work in a fine face. [ Proverb ]
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains - Beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learned the language of another world. [ Byron ]
To be left alone
And face to face with my own crime, had been
Just retribution. [ Longfellow ]
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]
By land or water the wind is ever in my face. [ Proverb ]
To laugh in one's face, and cut one's throat. [ Proverb ]
Alas! today I would give everything
To see a friend's face, or hear a voice
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain,
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
Of needless shame, and self-imposed disgrace. [ Cowper ]
The flush of youth soon passes from the face,
The spells of fancy from the mind depart;
The form may lose its symmetry, its grace.
But time can claim no victory over the heart. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]
Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind,
To build a college, or to found a race,
An hospital, a church - and leave behind
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face,
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind
Even with the very ore which makes them base;
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation,
Or revel in the joys of calculation. [ Byron ]
Upon her face there was the tint of grief,
The settled shadow of an inward strife,
And an unquiet drooping of the eye.
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. [ Byron ]
What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Blessed with all other requisites to please.
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires:
They seem like puppets led about by wires. [ Churchill ]
What would you have? A calf with a white face? [ Proverb ]
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war.
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream:
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden haste. [ William Shakespeare ]
In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace.
And sorrow seems acquainted with that face. [ Ickell ]
An angel face! its sunny wealth of hair,
In radiant ripples, bathed the graceful throat
And dimpled shoulders. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Around her shone
The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone.
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face.
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul. [ Byron ]
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
She was a neat dame that washed the ass's face. [ Proverb ]
He lies there who never feared the face of man. [ The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave ]
The tempest is over-blown, the skies are clear,
And the sea charmed into a calm so still
That not a wrinkle ruffles her smooth face. [ Dryden ]
One hand may wash the other, but both the face. [ Proverb ]
For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar. [ Tennyson ]
Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]
Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in it; though thy tackle's torn,
Thou showest a noble vessel. [ William Shakespeare ]
He has one face to God and another to the devil. [ Proverb ]
'Tis good nature only wins the heart;
It moulds the body to an easy grace
And brightens every feature of the face;
It smoothes the unpolish'd tongue with eloquence
And adds persuasion to the finest sense. [ Stillingfleet ]
Her cheek like apples which the sun had ruddied. [ Spenser ]
A good face is the best letter of recommendation. [ Queen Elizabeth ]
In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. [ German Proverb ]
Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]
So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. [ Yogi Berra ]
The face should give leave to the tongue to speak. [ Proverb ]
His words seem'd oracles
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,
That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard
The beating of your pulses while he spoke. [ George Croly ]
A man must go forth to face life with its enmities. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
By noting of the lady I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames.
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. [ William Shakespeare ]
And her face so fair
Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. [ Byron ]
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great persons seldom see their face in a true glass. [ Proverb ]
The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]
Better a blush in the face than a blot in the heart. [ Cervantes ]
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. [ Burton ]
All men's faces are true, whatsoever their hands are. [ William Shakespeare ]
Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame. [ Proverb ]
Fine eyes are to the face what eloquence is to speech.
He hath been in the sun today, his face looks roasted. [ Proverb ]
The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long. [ Proverb ]
In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty. [ William Shakespeare ]
A good face needs no band, and a bad one deserves none. [ Proverb ]
When the mare hath a bald face, the filley hath a blaze. [ Proverb ]
Around her shone The light of love, the purity of grace.
The mind, the music breathing from her face;
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole;
And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul! [ Byron ]
The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past. [ Coleridge ]
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace.
Secret joys and secret smiles. Little pretty infant wiles. [ William Blake ]
There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face. [ William Shakespeare ]
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue. [ Wordsworth ]
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance. [ R. B. Sheridan ]
Wine colors the face, to prevent the appearance of modesty. [ A. de Musset ]
I must in face of the storm think, live, and die as a king. [ Frederick the Great ]
A sweet expression is the highest type of female loveliness. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. [ William Shakespeare ]
Those faces which have charmed us most escape us the soonest. [ Walter Scott ]
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. [ St. Evremond ]
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Spit not against heaven, it will fall back into your own face. [ Proverb ]
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. [ N. P. Willis ]
Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dissimulation is the mask. [ Daniel Dubay ]
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Katniss Everdeen) ]
Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the face with his tail. [ Proverb ]
Truth makes the face of that person shine who speaks and owns it. [ South ]
O solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? [ Cowper ]
Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man. [ Bible ]
Death hath not so ghastly a face at a distance as it hath at hand. [ Proverb ]
Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. [ Steele ]
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? [ La Fontaine ]
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. [ Franklin ]
There is no art whereby to find the mind's construction in the face. [ William Shakespeare ]
Envy hath a leer of her father the devil, but cruelty his very face. [ Proverb ]
A face with gladness overspread! Soft smiles, by human kindness bred! [ Wordsworth ]
Her face, all red and white, like the inside of a shoulder of mutton. [ Foote ]
Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool. [ Thomas Fuller ]
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. [ Carlyle ]
Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. [ Jesus of children ]
His face was of that doubtful kind, That wins the eye but not the mind. [ Scott ]
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
If you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. [ Fanny Fern ]
Of all the lights you carry in your face, joy shines farthest out to sea.
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured by inches in a man's face. [ Benjamin West ]
Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. [ Rochefoucauld ]
When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. [ Dr. Watts ]
A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. [ Lycurgus ]
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Beauty depends more on the movement of the face than the form of the features. [ Mrs. Hall ]
That same face of yours looks like the title-page to a whole volume of roguery. [ Colley Gibber ]
Every man must have his own style, as he has his own face and his own features. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. [ Thackeray ]
A lie is like a vizard, that may cover the face indeed, but can never become it. [ South ]
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. [ Bulwer ]
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. [ Fuseli ]
What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace? [ Young ]
It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. [ Beecher ]
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. [ Pope ]
An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. [ Chatfield ]
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. [ Pope ]
Her face is like the Milky Way in the sky, - A meeting of gentle lights without a name. [ Sir John Suckling ]
In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. [ Proverb ]
True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. [ Shaftesbury ]
Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]
If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed. [ Pascal ]
The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past; the air and heaven, of futurity. [ Coleridge ]
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. [ Montaigne ]
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. [ Lamartine ]
There is no evil which we cannot face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. [ Daniel Webster ]
A serene face helps to make a serene soul; a smile on the lips induces a smile in the heart. [ George Hodges ]
Daring to face all hardships, the human race dashes through every human and divine restraint. [ Horace ]
Wrinkles of the face may be successfully hidden by art; not so with the wrinkles of the heart. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. [ Dickens ]
Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. [ John Ruskin ]
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]
A beloved face cannot grow ugly, because, not flesh and complexion, but expression, created love. [ Richter ]
Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty. [ Richter ]
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. [ Joubert ]
It is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. [ Daniel Webster ]
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance. [ Xenophon ]
Where rivulets dance their wayward round, and beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face. [ Wordsworth ]
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face. [ Longfellow ]
A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. [ Bovee ]
By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]
It is a blessing to be fair, yet such a blessing as if the soul answer not to the face, may lead to a curse. [ Bishop Hall ]
He who climbs above the cares of this world and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. [ Spurgeon ]
He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. [ Richard Alleine ]
It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics, to behold again the fair face of Truth. [ Carlyle ]
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. [ John Ruskin ]
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. [ St. Jerome ]
The realities of life are so repellent that few dare to look them in the face, and still fewer dare to speak of them. [ De Finod ]
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. [ Pascal ]
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! [ Alexander Smith ]
Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band that indicates a small wound drawn crosswise over the brow. [ Richter ]
There is no tomorrow; though before our face the shadow named so stretches, we always fail to overtake it, hasten as we may. [ Margaret J. Preston ]
Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. [ Bruyfere ]
Troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go, with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been. [ Spenser ]
The night, proceeding on with silent pace, stood in her noon, and viewed with equal face her sleepy rise and her declining race. [ Dryden ]
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]
A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves. [ Thomas Fuller ]
I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with anybody; I do so hate it: but not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devils face. [ George MacDonald ]
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy, which must sadden, or at least soften, every reflecting observer. [ Coleridge ]
What has become of those personages who made so much noise in the world? Time has made one step, and the face of the earth is renewed. [ Chateaubriand ]
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. [ Emerson ]
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form. It is the finest of the fine arts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
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. [ Lavater ]
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. [ South ]
Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it. [ John Morley ]
A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. [ Schiller ]
Under the assumption of profound esteem, the flatterer wears an outward expression of fidelity, as foreign to his heart as the smile upon the face of the dead. [ E. L. Magoon ]
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. [ Chesterfield ]
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 ]
When a man puts on a character he is a stranger to, there is as much difference between what he appears and what he is in reality as there is between a visor and a face. [ Bruyere ]
A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. [ Charles Reade ]
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
[ Joubert ]
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? and is there any harmony of tints that has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her voice? [ George Eliot ]
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]
Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon. [ Lavater ]
The tongue tells the thought of one man only, whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. [ Lowell ]
The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: They rest not day nor night.
His servants serve Him, and see His face.
[ Alexander Maclaren ]
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. [ Charron ]
A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very face and tone of voice contract a certain analogy. [ Lavater ]
Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]
If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]
All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]
No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. [ Carlyle ]
Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, - compare notes and chat the hour away. [ Hazlitt ]
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]
With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]
My first and last secret of Art is to get a thorough intelligence of the fact to be painted, represented, or, in whatever way, set forth - the fact deep as Hades, high as heaven, and written so, as to the visual face of it on this poor earth. [ Carlyle ]
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]
A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]
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 ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]
Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]
All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]