Countenance Quotes - Page 3

• Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

  John Milton

  Truth, Air, Quiet

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Service Culture, Wish

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• Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Passion, Evil, Envy

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek (p. 93), 1960.

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• Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

  Ovid

  Guilt, Difficult, Betray

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• Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kissing, Hatred, Concealed

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• The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Tongue, Faces, Eloquent

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• Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

  Seneca the Younger

  Forged, Falsehood

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• It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Doors, Hospitality

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.170

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• Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Inward, Driven

  James Russell Lowell, Maria F. Rosetti (1872). “Review of The Shadow of Dante”, p.201

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• People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

  Jeremy Collier

  People, Opinion, Physiognomy

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• Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Writing, Character, Phones

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• Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Children, Heart, Eye

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.143

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• The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

  Howard Thurman

  Memories, Dark, Years

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

  Theodore Parker

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Theodore Parker “Works”

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• Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

  Jane Austen

  Night, Thinking, Together

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

  J.R. Ward

  People, Brain, Body

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.184, Penguin

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Prophecy, Reflecting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Flames, Pro Life

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1971). “Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta”, HarperCollins

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

  Boethius

  Fate, Destiny, Feet

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

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• The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Spiritual, Inner Beauty, Skins

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• It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Evil, Inability, United States

  "The Works of Alexander Hamilton".

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• The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our relationships. We have a greater capacity to love each other. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in our character. As a result, we become increasingly more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things more clearly.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Character, Godly

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