Famous quotes containing the words face and/or due:
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by very different ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)