“In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.”
The Confession of Kai Lung
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
“Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.”
The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)
Context: We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
