A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history; and his wants. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson; Conduct of Life


A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde


After a certain number of years; our faces become our biographies. ~Cynthia Ozick; The Paris Review


An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun; or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or; in its altered mood; by beams of kindness; it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


God has given you one face; and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare


I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings; but there are many more faces; for each person has several. ~Rainer Maria Rilke; Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge


I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall


It is the common wonder of all men; how among so many millions of faces; there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne; Religio Medici


It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. ~Claudette Colbert; quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel


I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo


My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche; his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie. ~Toni Morrison


Some people; no matter how old they get; never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum


The countenance is the portrait of the soul; and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero


There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls; wherein he that cannot read A; B; C may read our natures. ~Sir Thomas Browne