It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhapsmight havetakenoccasionto repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.221,13 Nov.

He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Lucky  Jim, ch.25.

   Oh Bernard muttered Ethel this issosudden.No no cried Bernard and taking the bull by both horns he kissed her violently on her dainty face.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.9.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.2.

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

-Asquith, Margot
Attributed.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face.Hisson, asrude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said 'Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.'

-Aubrey,John
  Brief Lives (published1813),'Sir Walter Raleigh'.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter W H  Auden (1981), pt.2, ch.6.

Ithink your whole life shows inyour face and you should be proud of that.

-Bacall, Lauren originally Betty Perske
  In the Daily  Telegraph, 2 Mar.

Vim et virtutem et consequentias rerum inventarum notare juvat; quae non in aliis manifestius occurrunt, quam in illis tribus quae antiquis incognitae, et quarum primordia, licet recentia, obscura et ingloria sunt: Artis nimirum Imprimendi, PulverisTormentarii, et Acus Nauticae. Haec enim tria rerum faciem et statum in orbe terrarum mutaverunt. It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder and the magnet [ie the compass]. For thesethreehave changedthewholefaceand stateof things throughout the world.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129 (translated by  James Spedding).

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

-Barrymore, Ethel
Quoted in George  Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953).

What art thou that dost creep into my breast And dar'st not see my face? Show forth thyself. I feel a pair of fiery wings displayed Hither, from thence.You shall not tarry there; Up and begone. If thou beest love, begone.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
A King and No King, act 3, sc.1.

And though she had some decays in the face, she had none in her sense and wit.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave.

When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  Baseless Biography,'Bacon'.

There may be trouble ahead But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance Let's face the music and dance

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  'Let's Face the Music and Dance', in the film Follow the Fleet.

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 3:6.

And the L spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus 33:11.

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee† And he said,Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 33:19^20.

The L bless thee, and keep thee: The L makehisfaceshineuponthee, and be gracious unto thee: The L lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDNumbers 6:24^6.

And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:30.

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.But put forththinehand now, and touchhisboneand his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 2:4^5.