A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Loretta Young

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Isaac Disraeli

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Francis Quarles

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
Jean-Paul Marat

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Edward Coke

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky