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The human face
is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value
in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate
office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those
who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
-- Eliza Farnham
American Author and Social
Reformist
It has to be
displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane.
Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic
which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man
(rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head
back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind
of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his
body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down
his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
-- James Fenton
1949-, British Poet, Critic
A good face
they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature,
why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these
false recommendations into the World!
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
The face of a
child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
-- Jack Handy
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I am the
family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and
trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to
place over oblivion.
-- Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist,
Poet
Her face was
her chaperone.
-- Rupert Hughes
Our masks,
always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of
continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in
thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
-- Carolyn Kizer
The serial
number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and
unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither
character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is
only the serial number of a specimen.
-- Milan Kundera
1929-, Czech Author, Critic
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