Countenance Quotes - Page 6

• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

  Herbert Read

  Peace, Ubuntu, Water

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• By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

  Washington Irving

  Kindness, Eye, Discipline

  Washington Irving (1897). “The Works of Washington Irving...: Illustrated”

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• Study nature as the countenance of God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Study

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.102, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Laughing, Done, Resources

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• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, Wedding, Couple

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.79

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• God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - let us call on the Lord. He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Successful, Effort, May

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• We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Stars, Integrity, Humility

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• I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.

  William Howard Taft

  Thinking, Doubt, States

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• In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

  Livy

  Adversity, Desire, Assuming

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• Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sleep, Apes

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• Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

  Charles Dickens

  Cheer, Live Life, Fall

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.113

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• Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Mother, Men

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• Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Wisdom, Mistake

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.773, Library of Alexandria

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• Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

  Alexander Pope

  Rags, Ruffles, Rogues

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• In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Men, Heaven

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• Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Rose, Legs, May

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• Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Eye, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.114

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• In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Faces, Yearning

  CHARLES LAMB. (1857). “THE ESSAYS OF ELIA.”, p.76

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• I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

  William Penn

  People, Merit, Sometimes

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.192

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• A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
  [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Disadvantages

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• It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Simple, Expression, Soul

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