Face Quotes

Most popular face quotes

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent. - Marcel Proust quote.
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. - Euripides quote.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

appearances

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. - Stendhal quote.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

men

My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. - William Shakespeare quote.
My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? - Christopher Marlowe quote.
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.  We get to be responsible for our faces.

biography years

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare quote.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

cosmetics makeup

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. - Wystan Auden quote.
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
A good face is a letter of recommendation. - Joseph Addison quote.
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

tears

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.
Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces. - Cynthia Heimel quote.
Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.
Cynthia Heimel Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I’m Kissing You Good-Bye!

makeup

To me the most entertaining surface on earth is the human face. - G. C. Lichtenberg quote.
To me the most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.
The face that launch'd a thousand ships. - Christopher Marlowe quote.
The face that launch'd a thousand ships.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

happiness

If twas the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observ'd. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
If twas the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observ'd.
The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

thoughts

A man's face is his autobiography.  A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde quote.
A man's face is his autobiography.  A woman's face is her work of fiction.

men and women

The face is the soul of the body. - Ludwig Wittgenstein quote.
The face is the soul of the body.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.