Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Faces

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

The faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) American Playwright, Poet, Novelist

Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author

The face is the index of the mind.
Common Proverb

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility—the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) English Aristocrat, Poet, Novelist, Writer

He had a face like a blessing.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
Cynthia Ozick (b.1928) American Novelist, Short-story Writer, Essayist

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson’s face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn’t look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
James Fenton (b.1949) English Poet, Journalist

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English Novelist, Poet

God had given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
Robert Burns (1759–96) Scottish Poet, Songwriter

Tom’s great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face—as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist

If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
Milan Kundera (b.1929) Czech Novelist

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014) American Poet, Essayist, Translator

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American Sociologist

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