John Keats
Poet
"Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me."
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Countenance
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Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"A troubled countenance oft discloses much."
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"A pleasing countenance is no light advantage."
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"Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few."
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"A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]"
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"It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself."
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