“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”
Charles Dickens
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty”
Joseph Addison
“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple.”
Charles Lamb
“But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
Bible
“The Knight of the Sad Countenance.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“The bad boy tweaking the nose of the Establishment [with] the countenance of a Jewish leprechaun.”
Ervin S. Duggan
“His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.”
William Shakespeare
