Countenance Quotes

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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.

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

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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.

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

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

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.