#countenance

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#form #forms #habits #life #soul

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

— Julia Marlowe

#countenance #depict #good #inability #listen

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

#been #close #countenance #ears #expressive

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

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional

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

— Charles Dickens

#countenance #cry #down #exercises #eyes

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.

#buy #countenance #create #cultural #cultural diversity

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

#better #calmness #cosmetics #countenance #graces

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

— Isaac Barrow

#countenance #fading #flourishing #immortal #never

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#countenance #double #gift #kind #present

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. ↗

— King Solomon

#countenance #heart #maketh #merry