Physiognomy

Quotes about physiognomy:

• "Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait."
  • Bartol

• "As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room."
  • Jeremy Collier

• "Spite of Lavater, faces are oftentimes great lies. They are the paper money of society, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the human coffer."
  • F.G. Trafford

• "The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose."
  • Bovee

• "People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances."
  • Jeremy Collier

References

• Klopsch, Louis, 1852-1910 (1896). Many Thoughts of Many Minds.