Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

For by his face straight shall you know his heart.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

There's a lot you can do without words.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

If your face is going to “talk” for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.