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Quotes About Face

I cried with pride as I looked into the face of a midwife from the next generation of baby catchers.
~ Unknown
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
~ Robert Herrick
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.
~ William Wordsworth
And he sought, with quick vanity, the reflection in a big mirror opposite him. Just as fast he turned away. He appeared to have reached that situation of health where vanity meant you didn't risk your face in the mirror.
~ Darin Strauss
a greyish substance that might be blood. Remembering the spray I caught earlier, I wipe a hand across my face and it comes away wet and sticky with the same grey liquid. "I'd kill for a shower," I mutter, chuckling darkly at the sick joke. Juni cuts a long, jagged line through the creature's flesh
~ Darren Shan
What was?' said Dad. She crinkled her face up, like she was embarrassed. 'Well,' she said. 'I was lying here last night, tossing and turning. Kept getting up to look at her. Kept dropping off to sleep. And the strangest of dreams …' 'And … ?' said Dad. 'And I saw this man, that's all. Another dream, though
~ David Almond
both because of the cold and also to help hide his face.
~ David Baldacci
And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.
~ David Foster Wallace
The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
~ David Foster Wallace
Jim's internal life was to Orin a black hole, Orin said, his father's face any room's fifth wall.
~ David Foster Wallace
But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
~ William Shakespeare
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face
~ William Shakespeare
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
~ William Shakespeare
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
~ William Shakespeare
Scratching could not make it worse. . . such a face as yours.
~ William Shakespeare
In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
~ William Shakespeare
I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive. Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.
~ William Shakespeare
I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am     marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if     my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.
~ William Shakespeare
That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.
~ William Shakespeare
Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I could set my ten commandments in your face.
~ William Shakespeare
Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling that exists between Miss Clerricot and her face.
~ William Trevor
Soon as I see him again, I
~ William W. Johnstone
It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
~ Wilson Rawls