Countenance may refer to:
- Human physical appearance
- Countenance divine, or divine countenance, a reference to the literal or metaphorical face of God
- Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, called Operation Countenance, the 1941 invasion of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
Famous quotes containing the word countenance:
“But when your countenance filled up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I cease my song for thee,
From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,
O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.
Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,
The song, the wondrous chant of the grey-brown bird,
And the tallying chant, the echo aroused in my soul,
With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)