FACE

Related Subjects: Appearance, Beauty, Blushing, Eyes, Head, Lip, Mouth, Nose, Tongue

1. To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty, it is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.—GERTRUDE ATHERTON, The Conqueror
   

2. A beautiful face is a silent commendation.—BACON, Ornamenta Rationalia
   

3. It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
   

4. As a white candle
   In a holy place
   So is the beauty
   Of an aged face.—JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Old Woman
   

5. There is a garden in her face
   Where roses and white lilies blow;
   A heavenly paradise that place,
   Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
   There cherries grow that none may buy,
   Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.—THOMAS CAMPION, Cherry-Ripe
   

6. The magic of a face.—THOMAS CAREW, Epitaph on the Lady S—
   

7. Every line in her face is the line of least resistance.—IRVIN COBB
   

8. It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.—CLAUDETTE COLBERT
   

9. To be plain with you, friend, you don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.—DICKENS, Barnaby Rudge
   

10. Her pure and eloquent blood
    Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought
    That one might almost say her body thought.—JOHN DONNE, Funeral Elegies
    

11. 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's the folks out in front that I jar.—ANTHONY EUWER, Limerick
    

12. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships
    And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?—CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Faustus
    

13. The might of one fair face sublimes my love,
    For it hath weaned my heart from low desires.—MICHELANGELO
    

14. If to her share some female errors fall,
    Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.—POPE, The Rape of the Lock
    

15. A fair face may hide a foul heart.—Proverb
    

16. I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

17. My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

18. In thy face I see
    The map of honour, truth, and loyalty.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

19. I have seen better faces in my time
    Than stands on any shoulder that I see
    Before me at this instant.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

20. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
    May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
    Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
    Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
    But be the serpent under it.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

21. There's no art
    To find the mind's construction in the face:
    He was a gentleman on whom I built
    An absolute trust.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

22. His face is the worst thing about him.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

23. It is not night when I do see your face.—SHAKESPEARE,A Midsummer-Night's Dream