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Quotes about faces
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. (Brandis Jonathan)
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past. (Brandis Jonathan)
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. (Brandis Jonathan)
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. (Brandis Jonathan)
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I have eyes like those of a dead pig. (Brandis Jonathan)
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. (Brandis Jonathan)
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. (Brandis Jonathan)
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. (Brandis Jonathan)
Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face. (Brandis Jonathan)
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. (Brandis Jonathan)
He had a face like a blessing. (Brandis Jonathan)
The eyes those silent tongues of love. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
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! (Brandis Jonathan)
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
Her face was her chaperone. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
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. (Brandis Jonathan)
Every man over forty is responsible for his face. (Brandis Jonathan)
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? (Brandis Jonathan)
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? (Brandis Jonathan)
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