(26 quotes found)
“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
“The bad boy tweaking the nose of the Establishment [with] the countenance of a Jewish leprechaun.”
Ervin S. Duggan
“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
“His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.”
William Shakespeare
“Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.”
“Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.”
“Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.''”
John Aubrey
