Face Quotes

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

— Shut up, everybody! Don't move, don't speak, don't breathe. I'm trying to think. Anderson, face the other way. You're putting me off.
— What? My face is...?
— Everybody quiet and still. Anderson, turn your back.

How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

— Don't do that.
— Do what?
— The look.
— Look?
— You're doing the look again.
— Well, I can't see it, can I? It's my face.
— Yes and you're doing a "We both know what's really going on here" face.
— We do.
— No, I don't, which is why I find the face so annoying.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

— What, you cut yourself shaving?
— Yeah.
— Old razor?
— Old face.

— You don't have a mask. And you're very dull. But you're certainly better than nothing, now that what's-his-name...
— Does everyone here have a mask?
— Of course. How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?
— I've got a face.

Twenty million dollars' worth of plastic surgery. And that's the face you choose?

A fair face may hide a foul heart.

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English proverbs and sayings

Soul

Meaningful Quotes

It was not easy to preserve inscrutability when you did not know what your face looked like.
In any case, mere control of the features was not enough.

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George Orwell

1984

Only look up clear;
To alter favor ever is to fear.

A face handsome and brutal and waxy like a mask, wanting nothing. I’ve seen a million faces like it.

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Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Chief Bromden

— Hey, Marty, are those new glasses?
— Oh, yeah, just got them for school. Don't you think they make me look smarter?
— Nah, you can still see your face.

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