Can your face display it all?

[formality hater]

One of my friends thinks, that a man's personality is quite evident from his looks or facial expressions.I really doubt it.Look at this picture and tell me if you see Hercule Poirot shadowed in Agatha's eyes or Miss Marple hiding in her expressions?

http://www.torquaymuseum.org/seeTheMuseum/agathaChristie/images/Agatha.jpg
(I fail to notice anything mysterious about her face:alien: )

What do you think?

[Pensive]

It's an interesting question. I also used to wonder about it a lot, but after having thought so much about it, I came to this conclusion: Faces can be big big deceivers!

[BibliophileTRJ]

Faces can be big big deceivers!

I, for one, certainly hope so! My face would be more at home on a classic villain; yet I think I'm a pretty good guy.

There is a proverb that is very appropriate to this thread AND this site that says: DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.

[Pensive]

I, for one, certainly hope so!

You need not to hope! It has been proved as quite a fact. It's not always physically attractive people who turn out to be good/friendly from inside. :)

People with stern and harsh expressions have also been humanitarians/helping/tolerant of others, looking back at the history.

[BibliophileTRJ]

People with stern and harsh expressions have also been humanitarians/helping/tolerant of others, looking back at the history.

One of my favorites is Eleanor Roosevelt.

NOT what you'd call a classic beauty.... unless you look at her soul.

[NikolaiI]

Well atractiveness for me in the main is physical and mental health..beauty the same. Eleanor Roosevelt looks decently healthy and therefore attractive to me. I mean, she is not hideous or anything. And as for others, I think it's wrong to judge people. I mean not wrong morally but logically wrong. In general. Not that we don't. In fact I just changed my mind. Because elsewise, how would we avoid bad situations? You know, some people say that if everyone and everything were good, it would be horrible, or it would be bland because we wouldn't know it was good, but I disagree with this. I think people just like to say it. I connect with Dostoyevsky's vision of what paradise might be like, i.e., the dream world from his short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Things are perfect there, everyone loves and nobody lies and there is no sickness, etc., etc.- you should read the book for his description of it- I guess, if things were like that, there would still be sickness and death, or if not sickness then still death, and it is not a painful thing in that world. But I'm sorry for straying off topic. About the goodness in people, remember that anything is possible.

[formality hater]

I agree with you NikolaiI.

[Pensive]

I connect with Dostoyevsky's vision of what paradise might be like, i.e., the dream world from his short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Things are perfect there, everyone loves and nobody lies and there is no sickness, etc., etc.- you should read the book for his description of it

But it got corrupted after all when our main character, Mr. Ridiculous Man stepped in! I don't like the feeling of some place being a Paradise where the atmosphere changes with the arrival of one person :p (I have read the story, fascinating it was.)

[spa girl]

Being a poker player, I have to hope that I have learned to hide my feelings & intentions behind false facial expressions. I also have to hope that my opponents have not. :p

[Bakiryu]

I have practiced the FACE of polite attention: it's the face where i pretend to be intently listening while in reality i'm spacing out and thinking about something else. most people buy it.

[spa girl]

I've seen that face on my husband many times. I love to just stop talking midsentence in order to watch him "come to" and say, "Oh, uh huh...."

[Bakiryu]

Yeah, and them is the trademarked phrase "uhm".

Like "Today I was shopping"
"Uhm"
"And i bought...."
"uh uhm"
"What do you think?"
"uhm, that's cool"

[Pensive]

Being a poker player, I have to hope that I have learned to hide my feelings & intentions behind false facial expressions. I also have to hope that my opponents have not. :p

Hehe

And hey, actors also do that! They try to put themselves in a fictional (or someone else's place) and look as if they are that person! They hide themselves, fool the audience! :p

[kratsayra]

When I saw this subject line, I thought of how easily I blush. :blush: I cannot hide a thing. I blush automatically, and it's very much out of my control. I always feel like my face is giving me away. Silly white skin. ;)

[Bakiryu]

Hehe

And hey, actors also do that! They try to put themselves in a fictional (or someone else's place) and look as if they are that person! They hide themselves, fool the audience! :p

I love acting, because you can be someone else, I can easily portrait anger, sorrow, cry on cue I wish I was an actress :bawling:

[formality hater]

When I saw this subject line, I thought of how easily I blush. :blush: I cannot hide a thing. I blush automatically, and it's very much out of my control. I always feel like my face is giving me away. Silly white skin. ;)

When I am sick,people can easily see it.No matter how much I am cheering and jeering or acting normal, they would know that something is wrong(even if it is flu).I wonder if it comes written on my face.:confused: