Countenance Quotes - Page 2

• Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cost, Courtesy, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Children, Eye, Red

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.257, Broadview Press

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• Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

  John Aubrey

  Fathers Day, Son, Blow

  'Brief Lives' 'Sir Walter Raleigh'

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• The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

  Ellen G. White

  Daughter, Mother, Encouraging Words

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• The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

  Jim Caviezel

  Real, Sunday, People

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• One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Communication, Loss

  Charles Horton Cooley (1912). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Witty, Laughter, Laughing

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.378, OUP Oxford

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• We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Expression, People, Soul

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 11, 1799.

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• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Impact

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• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

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• A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

  Ovid

  Light, Advantage

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• Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

  Les Brown

  Positive, Happiness, Smile

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• What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

  George MacDonald

  Lying, Heart, Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5088, e-artnow

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• The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

  Horace

  Men, Tyrants, Citizens

  "Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

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• A sweet attractive kind of grace,
  A full assurance given by looks,
  Continual comfort in a face,
  The lineaments of Gospel books--
  I trow that countenance cannot lye
  Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Book, Eye

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• Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Communication, Soul, Messages

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• The cheek
  Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

  William Shakespeare

  Errands, Tongue, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1363, Oxford University Press

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• There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Smile, Spiritual, Character

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• Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

  Solomon

  Laughter, Heart, Character

  "A new translation of the Proverbs of Solomon, with notes by W. French and G. Skinner".

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Trust, Honesty, Business

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

  Fanny Burney

  Air, People, Together

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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• What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances

  Petrarch

  Names, Looks, Demise

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Eye, Unforgiving

  The School for Scandal act 4, sc. 1 (1777)

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• The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

  William Matthews

  Titles, Purpose, May

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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