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Quotes About Visage

I Fear the mirror may disclose The true, unvarnished visage of my soul, Bruised by shadows, black and blue with guilt- The face God sees, that men perhaps see too.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
mustache, a face which
~ Ken Follett
In thy face I seeThe map of honor, truth, and loyalty.
~ William Shakespeare
It is not a look of horror, consternation, or even distress. More often than not, the last visage of a murdered man resembles that of a flustered schoolchild to whom the logic of a simple equation has just been revealed.
~ David Simon
Fut-ce le fruit de mon imagination? Il me sembla voir passer sur le visage de notre voisin une expression que j'aurais pu traduire en ces termes: "Pourquoi te donnes-tu tant de mal? J'ai gagné, tu ne peux pas ne pas le savoir. Le simple fait que j'assiège chaque jour ton salon pendant deux heures n'en est-il pas la preuve? Si brillants que soient tes discours, tu ne pourras rien contre cette évidence: je suis chez toi et je t'emmerde.
~ Amelie Nothomb
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
~ Philip Treacy
Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.
~ Derek Landy
Her eyes are warm, but her mouth is sad.
~ Jennifer Niven
I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.
~ Michelle Visage
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count; on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
~ Alexandre Dumas
death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
~ Alexandre Dumas
His smile was the rictus of a beast.
~ Salman Rushdie
on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway—U.S. 66
~ Edward Abbey
gli occhi mi caddero su Gatsby, in piedi, solo sui gradini di marmo, intento a passare lo sguardo da un gruppo all'altro approvando con gli occhi. La pelle abbronzata del viso era liscia e attraente, e i capelli corti avevano l'aria di essere aggiustati ogni giorno. Non riuscii a vedere nulla di sinistro in lui. Mi chiesi se il fatto che non beveva aiutasse a distinguerlo dagli ospiti, perchè mi pareva che diventasse sempre più corretto e misurato che l'allegria generale cresceva.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
And because it works better, when anything seemeth to be gotten from you by question, than if you offer it of yourself, you may lay a bait for a question, by showing another visage, and countenance, than you are wont; to the end to give occasion, for the party to ask, what the matter is of the change? As Nehemias did; And I had not before that time, been sad before the king.
~ bacon francis vii
The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure's helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more.
~ Gene Wolfe
Nelson Chase's dull face hung in the middle distance like a jack-a-lantern.
~ Gore Vidal
The wrecked visage I was forced to carry like an unwanted warning to others was to her a known thing, a familiar mask. She seemed to see beneath it something of her own suffering and recovery—the acceptance of a life-changing wound, the will to go on.
~ Esi Edugyan
Fate is written in the face.
~ Federico Fellini
Fate is written in the face.
~ Federico Fellini
nose and a straight brow
~ Tami Hoag
It was the visage of a skull, draped by a transparent shroud of skin, except for the colors which the fire painted on it, now amber, now turquoise, and now the greenest jade.
~ Tanith Lee