Quotes About Mien

There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.

This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at once the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.

Vice… is a creature of such heejous mien… that th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it. Not a single attribute would place him credibly in the revered circle of American presidential character and power.