Countenance Quotes - Page 10

• Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Men, Mind, Different

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Hans Christian Andersen (Illustrated)”, p.3630, Delphi Classics

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• The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

  Philip Sidney

  Envy, House, Inward

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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

  Betray, Englishmen, Knows

  George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.19

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• ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Attitude, Humorous

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

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• Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

  John Cheever

  Husband, Dark, Rainy Day

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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