Definition of Countenance
Countenance Quotations
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
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
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Charles Dickens
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
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Honore De Balzac
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
Les Brown
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Isaac Barrow
Countenance Translations
countenance in German is Antlitz {n}, Miene {f}
countenance in Latin is oris, vultus
countenance in Spanish is semblante
countenance in Swedish is uppsyn, ansikte, min
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