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There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
— George Henry Borrow
As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.
— Alan Bradley
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
— Seneca The Younger
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
— James Russell Lowell
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
— Alexander Pope
worse,' pursued the Jew, anxiously watching the countenance of his companion. 'His hand was not in. I had nothing to frighten him with; which
— Charles Dickens
God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never act surprised in a courtroom.
— Stephen L. Carter
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse ...
— William Shakespeare
The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom — Ashim Shanker
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
— John Keats
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because I want to read your countenance - turn!
— Charlotte Bronte
Heresy is the foe of countenance
— Ernest Hemingway,
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
— Isaac Barrow
Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.
— Margaret Landon
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.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
— Charles Dickens
It's madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
— Knight Of The Woeful Countenance
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
— Joseph Hall
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
— Theodore Parker
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
— Francis Bacon
She could find no purchase on the older woman's marble-smooth countenance. There were no cracks to give her a view into her soul.
— Frances Hardinge
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
— Honore De Balzac
The hand will often reveal more than the countenance ...
— Anna Katharine Green
Our countenance, expressions, and communication style should be filled with Jesus. When people hear us, they should hear Jesus.
— Mark T. Barclay
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
— Seneca The Younger
Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
And did the Countenance Divine,Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills? — William Blake
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
— Alexandre Dumas
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.
— Benjamin Franklin
Vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Those who serve God with a sad countenance, because they do what is unpleasant to them, are not serving Him at all;
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I'll not countenance disobedience.
— Kristen Ashley
His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.
— Amanda Foreman
Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.
— Else Lasker-Schuler
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
— Jeremy Collier
Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.
— David Z. Hirsch
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
— Thomas Fuller
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
— Michel De Montaigne
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
— John Milton
Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled.
— Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!" The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.
— Alexandre Dumas
He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
— H.W. Brands
A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.
— Lord Chesterfield
Why, how's this?' muttered the Jew: changing countenance; 'only two of 'em? Where's the third? They can't have got into trouble. Hark!
— Charles Dickens
Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.
— Natalie Cole
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
— William Shakespeare
grotesque countenance
— Graham Downs
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
— Henry Fielding
A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Constantine's expression was heartbreaking - the countenance of a person who had been betrayed all over again.
— Anne Zoelle
Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.
— Publilius Syrus
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
— George Washington
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
— Solomon
The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.
— Julia Marlowe
The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand. — William Shakespeare
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Study nature as the countenance of God.
— Charles Kingsley