features

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.

—Shaw, George Bernard

She canoverpower, astonish, afflict, but she cannot win; her majestic presence and commanding features seem to disregard love, as a trifle to which they cannot descend.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed 'only two dramatic featuresöthe wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.'

—Powell, Anthony Dymoke

Features are an index to the heart.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

All visible objects, man, are but aspasteboard masks.But in each eventöin the living act, the undoubted deedöthere, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!

—Melville, Herman

When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

   How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

   It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.

—Homans, George C

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

—Wilbur, Richard

One of the saddest features of the real world is that goods do not spontaneously present themselves for distribution.

—The Economist