Quotations about Faces

by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:18 am

A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits ofall his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and hiswants. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry inthem the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C mayread our natures. ~Sir Thomas Browne

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There arequantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for eachperson has several. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - theymerely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insultlike hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness,it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderfulthings in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it isthe bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare

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

My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrowsbend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the palecheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of asnowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozensweep of the Erie. ~Toni Morrison

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. ~Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ~Cynthia Ozick, The Paris Review