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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Sir Thomas Browne
Her face was her chaperone.
Rupert Hughes
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
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
Albert Camus
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
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, and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
Julie Burchill
As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.
A. H. Euwer
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Christopher Marlowe
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
Eliza Farnham
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
Cynthia Ozick
