Quotes with false-face

Quotes 81 till 100 of 504.

  • Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • George Orwell At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
    The Orwell Diaries
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Busta Rhymes At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Robert M. Lindner Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
    The Green Fields of the Mind, Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Francis Bacon Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • E. M. Forster Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Lord George Byron Believe a woman or an epitaph,
    Or any other thing that's false, before
    You trust in critics, who themselves are sore.
    English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francis Picabia Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Quentin Crisp Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
    How to Become a Virgin (1981) Ch. 6
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Edwin Markham Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Anita Hill But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • George Orwell But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barry Bonds But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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