Quotes About Expression

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

As a gineral thing, when a woman wares the britches, she has a good rite tew them.

Jakie spo?ecze?stwo, taka literatura.

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.

Anna had the faculty of blushing.

It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm of the face, the face is a beautiful one; if it does not alter it, the face is ordinary, and if it is spoilt by a smile, it is ugly.

she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Prince Andrei was one of the best dancers of his day. Natasha danced exquisitely. Her little feet in their satin dancing shoes performed their role swiftly, lightly, as if they had wings, while her face was radiant and ecstatic with happiness.

In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.

When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.

No, it's all the same to me," said Levin, unable to suppress a smile.

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…

A writer is precious and necessary for us only to the extent to which he reveals to us the inner labour of his soul.