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Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. ~ Lord Byron
He had a face like a benediction. ~ Miguel de Cervantes

Faces are the central sense organ complexes, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head. The face is the feature which best distinguishes a person, and include the visible elements of hair, forehead, eyebrow, eyelashes, eyes, nose, ears, cheeks, mouth, lips, philtrum, teeth, skin, and chin. The face has uses of expression, appearance, and identity amongst others. It also has different senses like olfaction, taste, hearing, and vision.

Quotes

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Human face divine. ~ John Milton
Love has a thousand faces. ~ Randy Montana
All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are. ~ William Shakespeare
Compare her face with some that I shall show;
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. ~ William Shakespeare
Do not be afraid because of their faces, for ‘I am with you to deliver you,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.
~ Jeremiah 1:8, NWT
  • It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
  • As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
    • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section III. Memb. 4. Subsec. I.
  • And her face so fair
    Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.
  • Yet even her tyranny had such a grace,
    The women pardoned all, except her face.
  • He had a face like a benediction.
  • You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
  • That is the great thing about our movement--that these members are uniform not only in ideas, but even, the facial expression is almost the same!
  • “You cannot see my face, for no man can see me and live.” Jehovah said further: “Here is a place near me. Station yourself on the rock. When my glory is passing by, I will place you in a crevice of the rock, and I will shield you with my hand until I have passed by. After that I will take my hand away, and you will see my back. But my face may not be seen.
  • Do not be afraid because of their faces, for ‘I am with you to deliver you,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.
    • Jeremiah 1:8, NWT
  • Love has a thousand faces.
  • If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
  • May I not so much, so much be lost, just
    To see the hue, grace, glory gone
    Off the face of my beloved
    As I’d wake and be conscious.
  • I had also read
    on the face of surroundings
    some broken
    some disconnected
    some cracked expectations.
  • Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
    Bears a command in 't: though thy tackle's torn,
    Thou show'st a noble vessel.
  • God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
  • Your face, my thane, is a book where men
    May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
    Look like the time.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

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Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 250-52.
  • A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
    With the dream of, meet death with.
  • Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
  • And to his eye
    There was but one beloved face on earth,
    And that was shining on him.
  • There is a garden in her face,
    Where roses and white lilies blow;
    A heavenly paradise is that place,
    Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.
    There cherries grow that none may buy,
    Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
    • Campion claims these in note To Reader, Fourth Book of Airs. Arber in English Garner, follows original. Attributed to Richard Allison by W. D. Adams, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Charles Mackay. To Campion by Ernest Rhys, A. H. Bullen.
  • The magic of a face.
  • The face the index of a feeling mind.
  • Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
    The day's disasters in his morning face.
  • Her face betokened all things dear and good,
    The light of somewhat yet to come was there
    Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,
    When childish thoughts, like flowers, would drift away.
  • How some they have died, and some they have left me,
    And some are taken from me; all are departed;
    All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
  • A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.
  • These faces in the mirrors
    Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.
  • The light upon her face
    Shines from the windows of another world.
    Saints only have such faces.
  • Oh! could you view the melody
    Of every grace,
    And music of her face,
    You'd drop a tear,
    Seeing more harmony
    In her bright eye,
    Than now you hear.
  • Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
    And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
    Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.—
    Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!—
  • Vous avez bien la face descouverte; moi je suis tout face.
    • You have your face bare; I am all face.
    • Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Volume I, Chapter XXXV. Answer of a naked beggar who was asked whether he was not cold. Same in Fuller, Worthies. Berkshire, p. 82. 3rd Ed. (1662).
  • Cheek * * *
    Flushing white and mellow'd red;
    Gradual tints, as when there glows
    In snowy milk the bashful rose.
  • With faces like dead lovers who died true.
  • Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.
    • Often a silent face has voice and words.
    • Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book I. 574.
  • If to her share some female errors fall
    Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
  • Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
    • Psalms, IV. 6.
  • A sweet attractive kinde of grace,
    A full assurance given by lookes,
    Continuall comfort in a face
    The lineaments of Gospell bookes.
    • Matthew Royden, Elegie: or a Friend's Passion for his Astrophill (Sir Philip Sidney).
  • On his bold visage middle age
    Had slightly press'd its signet sage,
    Yet had not quenched the open truth
    And fiery vehemence of youth;
    Forward and frolic glee was there,
    The will to do, the soul to dare.
  • Sea of upturned faces.
    • Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume II, Chapter XX. Daniel Webster. Speech. Sept. 30, 1842.
  • Hidden are
    the faces around me,
    like words tucked within quotation marks.
  • Behind masks of smiles,
    some faces have buried their pain,
    while others have hidden
    almost their entirety.
  • Every face is hidden
    behind some mask or another
    yet still, they are deciphered
    just as phrases are understood
    from within quotation marks.
  • An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
  • Her angel's face,
    As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
    And made a sunshine in the shady place.
    • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto III, Stanza 4.
  • Her cheeks so rare a white was on,
    No daisy makes comparison;
    (Who sees them is undone);
    For streaks of red were mingled there,
    Such as are on a Cath'rine pear,
    (The side that's next the Sun).
  • Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky,—
    A meeting of gentle lights without a name.
  • White rose in red rose-garden
    Is not so white;
    Snowdrops, that plead for pardon
    And pine for fright
    Because the hard East blows
    Over their maiden vows,
    Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
  • A face with gladness overspread!
    Soft smiles, by human kindness bred!
  • My face. Is this long strip of skin
    Which bears of worry many a trace,
    Of sallow hue, of features thin,
    This mass of seams and lines, my face?

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