1.
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John Keats
2.
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
Jeremy Collier
3.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor Hugo
6.
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.
William Shakespeare
7.
I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
Edmund Spenser
10.
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
Ovid
11.
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
John Lyly
12.
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
[Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
Ovid
13.
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15.
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.
Marcus Aurelius
17.
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
George Henry Borrow
18.
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
Seneca the Younger
19.
Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.
Publilius Syrus
20.
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
Ben Jonson