Countenance Quotes

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

Women, Long, Battle

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Trust, Men, Bad

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

Down, Eyes, Away

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
Les Brown

Positive, Smile, Give

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

Gift, Present, Double

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

Life, Soul, Habits

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps

Beauty, True, Humility

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

Eyes, Soul, Intentions

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

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
King Solomon

Heart, Cheerful, Merry

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.
Giacomo Casanova

Good, Character, Evil

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

Serenity, Youth, Smiling

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
Tony Kushner

Life, Power, Forget

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Chaim Potok

Religion, Experience, Human

The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.
Jim Caviezel

Life, Live, Sunday

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

American, President, Simply

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Humble, Feeling, Eyes

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Fire, Pretty, Rather

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Power, Far, Create

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Jeremy Collier

Put, Difficulty, Assurance

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
Frances Burney

Live, Together, Another

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.
Lord George Gordon

Power, Off, Taught

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

Good, Others, Said

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