“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.” ThinkingMindPersonsFacesBeautyMoralExpressionDependsFeaturesAccustomedTrue Beauty Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders
“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.” FirstsMotherCommonPracticeExpressionSolutionsSightMetaphorAidsWitFeaturesSpeakersRespectableJamHaltConfrontingExpediencyHomelyMother Wit Author:Laura Riding
“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.” SoulCertainTurnsSimpleOpinionExpressionDevelopmentHabitShapesAssumingAffectionImpressionFeaturesHabitualCountenancePhysiognomy Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.” IfsGivingMeanInterestRealizingExpressionGayProveCreaturesFellowsConstantUglyConversionPreservesFeaturesSimplestGentlenessCosmeticsHarshness Author:Berthold Auerbach
“Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.” WellsMayArtFormPoetryLanguageExpressionInvolvedElementsFeaturesAnalysisPoeticConventionalIconic Author:Yuri Lotman
“Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.” FormSpiritualityExpressionDelightFeaturesRemarkableDisregardRespectabilityWanton Author:D.T. Suzuki
“The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.” YearsHumansHuman NatureExpressionThousandYears AgoFeaturesThousand YearsVariability Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.” ThinkingLooksWatchesExpressionNostalgiaFeatures Author:Steve McCurry
“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.” PeopleThinkingWayBeautifulMotherCompassionAchieveTaughtExpressionAdvantageValuableFocusedFeaturesFriendlyTranslateSupportiveBeautiful PeopleExpressions Of LoveSupportive FamilyCompassion And Respect Author:Lupita Nyong'o