Top 41 Quotes About Physiognomy
#1. Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,
in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.
Isaac D'Israeli
#4. Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.
Joaquin Miller
#5. Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. I'd rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn't feel sure about.
Blake Lively
#8. Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different.
Maya Tiwari
#9. When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are ... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.
Jamie Wyeth
#10. We are very slow to recognise in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the model which is labelled "great talent" in our museum of general ideas.
Marcel Proust
#11. What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
Mary C. Ames
#12. There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
Joseph Cook
#13. When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'
Matthew Perry
#14. The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The contrast of what is with what might be, probably accounts for this.
Thomas Hardy
#15. His physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded or not, according to the charm you found in a blue eye of remarkable fixedness and a jaw of somewhat angular mold, which is supposed to bespeak resolution.
Henry James
#16. There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.
Herman Melville
#17. PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers.
Hosho McCreesh
#19. Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
Paracelsus
#21. Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.
C. A. Bartol
#22. No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.
August Sander
#23. I was a total fail next to Ash, but Daemon said something about me wearing his clothes that sent blood rushing to every part of my body and I didn't care if I looked like a hunchback next to her.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#24. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
Toni Morrison
#25. People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
Jeremy Collier
#26. His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.
Tarjei Vesaas
#27. You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
Bobby Darin
#28. Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
[Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#29. Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates
#30. I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been ...
John Geddes
#31. Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
Stevie Smith
#32. A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
Charles Horton Cooley
#33. The poetry of life, the inner side of nature, rises near the surface to meet the eyes of the man who makes. The advantage gained by the carpenter of Nazareth at his bench is the inheritance of every workman as he imitates his maker in the divine - that is, honest - work.
George MacDonald
#34. The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#35. Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
Truman Capote
#36. Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees.
Emily Bronte
#37. People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Paul Cezanne
#38. A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.
John Berger
#39. Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#40. There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
Charles Dickens
#41. I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.
Meryl Streep
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