Faces Quotes
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At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
S. D Gordon
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It's not a face, but a personal insult.
Faina Ranevskaya
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To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true.
Charlotte Bronte
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You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.
Chin-Ning Chu
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My face is my passport.
Vladimir Horowitz
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I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
William Butler Yeats
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Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.
Sarah Dessen
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Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
William Shakespeare