Quotes of Countenance - somelinesforyou

“ The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. ”

- Charles Macklin

“ Is now the time to legalize prostitution? ”

- Harry Anderson

“ Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours? ”

- Edward Moore

“ Smiles form the channel of a future tear. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. ”

- Frank Gelett Burgess

“ There were a lot of smiles on a lot of faces today. ”

- Dennis Conner

“ Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. ”

- Harold Ross

“ There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ”

- Katherine Anne Porter

“ Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. ”

- Avery Brooks

“ I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes… ”

- Peter Buck

“ Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world. ”

- Scipione Alberti

“ Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. ”

- Psalm

“ A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ Bless us our Father, together all of us, with the light of thy countenance. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ Certes, they been like hounds, for a hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse … he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ 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

“ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ”

- The Holy Bible

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

- Charles Dickens

“ Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. ”

- Jeremy Collier

“ The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. ”

- Les Brown

“ Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A merry heart maketh a cheeful countenance. ”

- King Solomon

“ What we are on the inside, what we continually think about, eventually shows in our words, actions, and even our countenances. ”

- Linda Dillow
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