Quote: My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Author: Lauren Bacall 1924-, American Actress
Quote: Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Author: Natalie Clifford Barney 1876-1972, American-born French Author
Quote: I have eyes like those of a dead pig. Author: Marlon Brando 1924-, American Actor, Director
Quote: People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. Author: Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet
Quote: It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. Author: Julie Burchill British Journalist, Writer
Quote: When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. Author: Robert Burn
Quote: Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. Author: John Carey
Quote: He had a face like a blessing. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: The eyes those silent tongues of love. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar. Author: A. H. Euwer
Quote: The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. Author: Eliza Farnham American Author and Social Reformist
Quote: It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose. Author: James Fenton 1949-, British Poet, Critic
Quote: A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. Author: Jack Handy
Quote: I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. Author: Thomas Hardy 1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Her face was her chaperone. Author: Rupert Hughes
Quote: Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. Author: Carolyn Kizer
Quote: The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. Author: Milan Kundera 1929-, Czech Author, Critic
Quote: We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: Every man over forty is responsible for his face. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? Author: Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet
Quote: I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. Author: Groucho Marx 1895-1977, American Comic Actor
Quote: A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer
Quote: That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ruined physiognomy on TV documentaries and chat shows, as familiar and homely a horror as Grandpa in The Munsters. Author: Philip Norman
Quote: ''What is your fortune, my pretty maid?'' ''My face is my fortune, Sir,'' she said. Author: Nursery Rhyme
Quote: After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces. Author: Cynthia Ozick 1928-, American Novelist, short-story Writer
Quote: What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: The face is the index of the mind. Author: Proverb
Quote: A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today? Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist