Face Quotes

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her tiny bare feet, the coal-stained balcony bricks upon which she sat, and that dusty wrought-ironwork that framed her perch. All this and the pungent air!—almost foul, with so many odors. Ô, that and the spicy night! …Pungency, spice, filth and night, dust and light; all things dark did blossom in sight; flower and bloom, the night has its pearl too—the moon! And once a month it will make the face of this tender girl bloom.”
― Roman Payne

“Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?

It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“Voices and faces aren't manifestations
of good or bad.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

“I bet she likes it hard, from behind, probably likes to get spanked too. I mean, just look at her, she has a serious come-fuck-me-face.”
― Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi

“...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.”
― Minhal Mehdi

“... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not dance, and hated everybody at the high school. She would like to claw away her face, she told us, so that people would stop seeing things in it that had nothing to do with what she was like inside. She was ready to die at any time, she said, because what men and boys thought about her and tried to do to her made her so ashamed. One of the first things she was going to do when she got to heaven, she said, was to ask somebody what was written on her face and why had it been put there.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“But
he had the kindest face in the world, with big, dark eyes and buzzed-cut
brown hair.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before everything blows up in his face!"-Marco”
― Katherine Applegate

“...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...”
― John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.”
― Steven Herrick, Cold Skin

“Tillie studied her mother’s face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.”
― Deeanne Gist, Maid to Match

“...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her face he knew how a doctor must feel sometimes when he looks at a belly. For her face was no more than a cover of skin, showing nothing of the terrible, complicated things, ugly and beautiful, that were going on inside her.”
― Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall

“„Dva su načina na koja gledamo lice druge osobe. Jedan je da gledamo oči kao dio lica. A drugi, gledamo u oči i to je to, kao da su one lice. Takvih se stvari čovjek jednostavno preplaši. Jer oči su život u malome.”
― Alessandro D'Avenia, Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue