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“A mask tells us more than a face.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
“He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“This is as plain as a nose in a man's face; you know it by experience; you see it.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2
“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship
“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, and cry 'Content!' to that which grieves my heart, and wet my cheeks with artificial tears, and frame my face to all occasions.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Her eyes were fine, but so large that they seemed to be bending beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in an ill humour.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“Even with her altered complexion and her face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulchre, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful.” George MacDonald, Phantastes
“Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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