Quotes About Faces

Their wet cold faces, her shapeless nose and his grotesque hooked nose like the caricature-mask of a Roman soldier, their large, contorted, abnormal mouths, made, it might seem, more for anguished curses against God than for the sweet usage of lovers, were now pressed savagely against each other and, as they kissed, queer sounds came from both their throats, that were answered by the groanings of the tree and by the raindrops as the wind shook it.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

You hear about ghosts: sad ghosts, angry ghosts.I'll tell you, the worst is when they laugh, and the worst sort are the ones whose faces I've forgotten.

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand—they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

The snow on their faces is so white that how the white patches on their faces, which once looked so white against their black, are a shade of yellow.

As faces estavam macilentas e o olhar tinha qualquer coisa de estagnado, visto mais de perto. Contudo, na voz, nos gestos, no olhar havia algo que a fazia mais real, mais palpável, ela que se tornara uma figura tênue como um sonho na escuridão.

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them.

faces that it was.

There are faces made for moonlight. There are faces created to respond to the wind. There are faces for sandy deserts, for lonely seashores, for solitary headlands, for misty dawns, for frosty midnights. Cordelia's face was made for rain.

Hope and fear seemed blended in every face, instantaneously alternating, some with revengeful hate…others with lighted hope.

He said, men are vile. I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces.

the trackers, an even more pathetic collection of tatterdemalions than our porters of the morning, began to attach themselves resignedly to the lines. They had such sad faces!

I must part with you for my whole life, she read, with horror. I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes. The truth of that closed the book for her, forever.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

That painted ship of theirs was the finest thing about them. Their faces had lines like grandfathers. Their eyes were bloodshot and dead. They flinched from my animals. "Let me guess," I said. "You are lost? You are hungry and tired and sad?

It made me dizzy to realise that this was but a fraction of all the men the world had bred. How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad?

How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad

It made me dizzy to realize that this was but a fraction of a fraction of all the men the world had bred. How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad?

On their faces, disappointment braided with relief.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Soledat! Soledat! Soledat! Desconeguts en els quals fixar el nostre afany impossible durant les breus hores d'una nit, rostres que un moment semblaven preciosos però que tot seguit calia avorrir, contactes furtius i sense satisfacció en les cambres anònimes on, més que estimar-nos, ens prostituïem...