Quotes About Countenance

Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

Miss Trent thought that she had seldom seen Patience in such good looks, and reflected that nothing became a girl so well as a glow of pleasurable excitement. She was inevitably dimmed by Tiffany, who was in great beauty, and wearing a dashing bonnet with a very high crown and a huge, upstanding poke framing her face, but there was something very taking about her countenance; and her eyes, though lacking the brilliance of Tiffany's, held a particularly sweet expression.

The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace." —NUMBERS 6:25–26 NKJV

Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Worry sits on the countenance of nearly every season ticket-holder in the morning train and in the evening train. You see it in the streets, offices, and restaurants, and you can even meet it in the country lanes. The habit of worrying infallibly leaves its mark, and the mark is there for all to notice.

His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom, and he replied, To seek one who fled from me.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.

She was a sour-sass soul with a rubbery face.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

She figured that any day now she was going to start feeling the simple composure of normalcy that Jane Austen's heroines always sought to maintain, the state described in those days as "countenance," and later as "being cool.

Fate is written in the face.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance!

Fate is written in the face.

She had a cheerful countenance, and that sometimes disguised her habit of looking on the world with what she called "detached malevolence.

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

He muttered something of Mr. Norrell's honest countenance. The York society did not think this very satisfactory (and had they actually been privileged to see Mr. Norrell's countenance they might have thought it even less so).

nose and a straight brow

Romulan, leaning his arms on the rail, stared down into the stagnant water far below, seeing his own miniaturized countenance, hypnotized by it.