1,714 Quotes About Faces

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

We've got a lot of new faces there.

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

Usually, a month or a month and half after the Games, we're insignificant again. It's fun, not just to demonstrate what we don on the trampoline, but to watch the faces of the kids having fun learning about the Olympics.