#physiognomy

I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#men

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#changes #day #every #every day #how

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. ↗

— Paracelsus

#account #basis #distress #everything #his

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#either #i #physiognomy #self-conscious #sexy