Face Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old face quotes, face sayings, and face proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. Walt Whitman
The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be. Daphne Orebaugh
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare
Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise. Charles Spurgeon
If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you. Richard Branson
The look on someone's face when they're doing what they love is contagious and inspiring. Taylor Swift
Every face is born with a thousand masks to go with it. Marty Rubin
Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement. Pat Mitchell
There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man. Chris Cleave
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office. Julia Roberts
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious. Giacomo Casanova
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside. Loretta Young
The face is the index of the mind. Anonymous
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Gail Buckley
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. William Shakespeare
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Charlotte Whitton
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Double face in a person is no problem as long as both faces are more or less the same! Mehmet Murat ildan
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life! Barbara Johnson
The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Walter Scott
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. Arthur Schopenhauer
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
The face is the soul of the body. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. William Shakespeare
Faces always talk too much. One line and all their plans are revealed. Floriano Martins
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. William Shakespeare
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren Kierkegaard
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. Robert Kiyosaki
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. Agatha Christie
Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure. Adriana Trigiani
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall
The face is commanding because of its very visibility and omnipresence. Paul Ekman
The face is also commanding because of its role in early development; it is prior to language in the communication between parent and child,. Paul Ekman
The face can send messages about such transient and sometimes fleeting events as a feeling or emotion, or the moment-to-moment fluctuations of a conversation. Paul Ekman
Don't be fooled by the magazines: many successful executive, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and secretaries don't wear makeup. Indeed, it's better to wear no make up than to wear it badly. Phyllis Mindell
Beauty isn't about vapid and superficial pursuit that exists solely to sell products, wag tongues, and produce drool. Michael F. Roizen
Beauty is actually precisely perceived, purposeful, and rooted more in hard science than in abstract opinion. Michael F. Roizen
We already know that beauty is always on your mind, because it's on everyone's minds. Michael F. Roizen
This kind of traditional beauty--the outer kind--really isn't just about looking good. Outer beauty serves as a proxy of how healthy you are. Michael F. Roizen
How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and the enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me. Charles Dickens
Beautiful elegies reflect our sense that the only fitting remembrance for one who lived is to renew life, and that our own march forward into dying is itself an affirmation of life, and in its basic character, is good. Kathleen Marie Higgins
There will be no need to cultivate a beautiful expression on your face. It will appear like magic if you are quite certain that you have done the most you can with your looks and are determined to leave it at that. Beauty for Every Woman
But inner beauty is a process, inner beauty allows a constant exploring; it never ends. And this is what love is being directed at: a deep, whole beauty. Tobias Hurter
The beauty might not be beauty in being beautiful; however, it might simply be a result of being different to the other offspring of one's kind, therefore being beautiful. Christopher Monbelly
Everyone is different in their own way and that's what makes us unique and exceptionally beautiful. Devin Brown
Beauty brings copies of itself into being. It makes us draw it, take photographs of it, or describe it to other people. Elaine Scarry
It is biologically possible to look beautiful at any age. If you do not see yourself beautiful, it is because your beauty has remained unclaimed. Tonya Zavasta
Beauty generates positive energy and arouses excitement within us when we see it. Imagine how exhilarating it would be to be beautiful yourself. Tonya Zavasta
Every woman should be beautiful at some point in her life. And your time is now! Tonya Zavasta
Looking and feeling amazing does not mean trying to be something you're not. It means being healthy and happy so you radiate your feminine beauty and confidence, enhancing everything you are and all that you have. Donna Kennedy
What is true beauty? This can be a hard question to answer, because beauty truly in is the eyes of the beholder, and everyone's truth can be and probably is different. Robert Jones
Embrace your own personal beauty--love who you are today and everyday. Robert Jones
Natural beauty is being beautiful without makeup and just being yourself. Katherina Sheehan
There were countries where the use of cosmetics was not allowed and noly without makeup were considered beautiful. Gabriella Baki
Even if you're the type of woman who is perfectly fine without any makeup on, you can't deny the fact that you feel like a better, up-leveled version of yourself with it on. Trish McEvoy
The decision to avoid makeup is perfectly legitimate. Men aren't expected to wear makeup. so women shouldn't be expected to either. Phyllis Mindell
If you choose to avoid cosmetics and let your natural beauty show, you'll emulate some of the handsomest women of our time. Phyllis Mindell
Don't be fooled by the magazines: many successful executive, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and secretaries don't wear makeup. Indeed, it's better to wear no make up than to wear it badly. Phyllis Mindell
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror of the painter? Picasso
If our faces were not alike, we couldn't distinguish man from the beast; if they were not different, we couldn't distinguish man from man. Montaigne
I have come to look on my face as a mask behind which the reality is the reality that it hides. William Allen White
It is the common wonder of all men how, among so many millions of faces, there should be one alike. Sir Thomas Browne
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. Groucho Marx
When some people lose face, they feel worse but look better. Evan Esar
A woman's face is her fortune---or misfortune. Evan Esar
The more beautiful a girl's face, the less a man can tell you what clothes she has on. Evan Esar
Many woman has the kind of face that grows on a man instead of the kind that should grow on a woman. Evan Esar
The face that over cocktails seemed so sweet, is less alluring over shredded wheat. Evan Esar
Sometimes the face cab tell what the lips can't say. African Proverb
Of all parts of the body, the face alone can stand in for the entire person and represent him to the world. African Proverb