Countenance Quotes

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Fear can be a source of facial discrimination because faces, which we are not used to, can be frightening, deviant or weird. Since the human brain permanently processes countenances, it identifies who is who, who is foe, who is friend, and who could constitute an imminent danger. Only, when the mind has become accustomed to the various facial types, people might drop their prejudices and their fear. (- "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.”
― Anthony Liccione

“There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom”
― Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species

“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

“Never act surprised in a courtroom.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

“Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.”
― H.W. Brands

“What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin”
― David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies

“In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus”
― Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation

“Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.”
― Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

“In the faces of humanity, the countenances that shine brightest are those whose minds are powered by wisdom's Divine supplier of enlightment...selah.”
― Tracey Bond

“Any smiling countenance before a corpse is either stupid or suspicious; countenance speaks louder than words.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“As eyes are mirrors into the soul, so is a countenance a reflection of character.”
― Rian Nejar

“One late nineteenth-century memoir recounted... 'that one acquainted with [Mormons] could tell a Mormon when he met him by the look upon his face almost as well as if he had been of a different color.”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood