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Quotes About Face

I'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage, and love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.
~ John Fowles
a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.
~ John Fowles
Frankie's face never reveals much. His eyes seldom blink, his voice is steady and flat as if he's measuring every word. Survival in prison required a poker face. Long stretches of solitude were common. "Are you sure?" he asks. It's obvious he has doubts about Seabrook
~ John Grisham
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he'd not yet seen.
~ John Irving
It was his first understanding that physical attraction, even sexual desire, was stimulated by more than the perfection of a body, or the beauty of a face.
~ John Irving
Pale wox I, and in vapours hid my face. Art thou, too, near such doom? vague
~ John Keats
So that's who that obvious appendage of officialdom was. He looked like an arm of the bureaucracy. You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
~ John Kennedy Toole
What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark? The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. Because I've suffered, he burst out.
~ John Knowles
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
~ John Knowles
In the whole the face of things, as I say, was much altered; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face; and though some parts were not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply concerned; and as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on himself and his family as in the utmost danger.
~ John M. Barry
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself
~ Ibn Arabi
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.
~ Peter Damian
True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it's dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face.
~ Unknown
I love you so much my heart is sure. As time goes on I love you more, your happy smile, your loving face, no one will ever take your place....
~ Unknown
People change, hearts change, feelings change even face can change, but past can't change.
~ Unknown
His voice was remote, almost careless. "You would not be displeased, I think. With how you look now." My face grew warm, again. But we spoke no more of it.
~ Madeline Miller
The dying light was in his hair, and his face was sweet with evening.
~ Madeline Miller
His face was smile-lined
~ Madeline Miller
Agamemnon's face had broken into dark red blotches of shock. It seemed like the greatest arrogance or stupidity not to have guessed he might be at fault, but he had not.
~ Madeline Miller
I did not want to make a fool of myself in front of him. But his face was hopeful, and I felt like a miser to refuse.
~ Madeline Miller
Achilles smiles as his face strikes the earth.
~ Madeline Miller
Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark, or disguise. I told myself. I would know it even in madness.
~ Madeline Miller
Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in darkness or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.
~ Madeline Miller