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Quotes about Faces
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“Her face was her chaperone.”
“He had a face like a blessing.”
“I have eyes like those of a dead pig.”
“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”
“Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.”
“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”
“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”
“Every man over forty is responsible for his face.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.”
“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
“When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.”
“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
“The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.”
“God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]”
“Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.”
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”
“''What is your fortune, my pretty maid?'' ''My face is my fortune, Sir,'' she said.”
“A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.”
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”
“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.”
“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
“It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.”
“This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.”
“After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.”
“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.”