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Letter "C" » countenance
«There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Beauty,
Cosmetics
| Keywords:
calmness, cosmetic, cosmetics, countenance, good temper, gracious, modesty, purity, severe, signatures, temperance, the Graces, without modesty
«The bad boy tweaking the nose of the Establishment [with] the countenance of a Jewish leprechaun.»
Author: Ervin S. Duggan
| Keywords:
Bad Boy, countenance, establishment, leprechaun, Leprechauns, The Establishment, The Nose
«The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establis»
Author: Joseph Story
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
amendment, countenance, Judaism, prostrate, prostrated, prostrating, rivalries, rivalry, sects
«The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
countenance, countenanced, countenances, informer, informers, portrait, The Informer
«There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
announce, bitterness, brighten, countenance, distinct, languished, languishes, languishing, sarcasm, soften, sweetness, tenderness
«Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
around, comfortable, countenance, countenanced, countenances, positive, smile
«Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
countenance
«The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Feminism,
Right,
Women
| Keywords:
countenance, countenanced, countenances, individual rights, The Battle, undermined, undermines, undermining
«The Knight of the Sad Countenance.»
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