Top 229 Countenance Quotes & Sayings

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

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

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

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

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

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

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

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

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.

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

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

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

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

Study nature as the countenance of God.

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

The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

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

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

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

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

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance.

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

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

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

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

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.

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

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

The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.

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

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

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

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

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

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.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

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

Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

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.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.