Quotes about Countenance
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
- Cicero
O Lord, unto Thee do I come that I might find grace to praise and worship Thee aright. Lord, lift up the light of Thy countenance upon us; send power and majestic grace.
- Oswald Chambers
“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
- Genesis 4:6
You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
- Job 14:20
If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
- Job 29:24
Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
- Psalm 80:16
A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
- Proverbs 15:13
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:3
With borrowed light her countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten the earth, And in her pale dominion checks the night.
- John Milton
We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.
- Gordon Hinckley
Never did anybody look so sad.
- Virginia Woolf
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
- Charles Dickens