Physiognomy Quotes - Page 2

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Beautiful, Style, Mind

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No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander

Photography, Earth, Path

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When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Jamie Wyeth

Feelings, Portraits, Looks

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What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Mary C. Ames

Beauty, Powerful, Sight

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religious, Religion, Faces

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.21

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Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

C. A. Bartol

Children, Exhibits, Traits

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Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

Matthew Arnold

Spiritual, Men, Law

Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

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Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.

John Keegan

Stress, Fighting, Successful

John Keegan (1999). “The First World War”, Knopf

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The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Bows, Dresses, Quiet

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I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been.

John J. Geddes

Believe, Reflection, Maps

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Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

Isaac D'Israeli

Men, Style, Pulse

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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

Charlotte Bronte

Country, Flower, Book

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Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different.

Maya Tiwari

Memories, Men, Mind

Source: www.abc.net.au

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