Quotes 301 till 320 of 386.
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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956) -
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50 -
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
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Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense.
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