Smile Quotes

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Devouring Famine, Plague, and War,
Each able to undo mankind,
Death's servile emissaries are;
Nor to these alone confined,
He hath at will
More quaint and subtle ways to kill;
A smile or kiss, as he will use the art,
Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart.

Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.

Thomas Campbell

Aloof with hermit-eye I scan
The present works of present man —
A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile,
Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, [in a gruff male voice] "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but [flattered smile] he was talking about me!

Sarah Silverman

This is the last smile that I'll fake for the sake of being with you.

Thought has made me shameless. It does not matter at last at all if one is a little harsh or indelicate or ridiculous if that also is in the mystery of things.
Behind everything I perceive the smile that makes all effort and discipline temporary, all the stress and pain of life endurable. In the last resort I do not care whether I am seated on a throne or drunk or dying in a gutter. I follow my leading. In the ultimate I know, though I cannot prove my knowledge in any way whatever, that everything is right and all things mine.

Where did you go? Down below. Ugh, she said. I've heard they're little better than animals. Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw.... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. I'm Deuce, animal from the underground.

I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.

The great right of migration and the great wisdom of incorporating foreign elements into our body politic, are founded not upon any genealogical or ethnological theory, however learned, but upon the broad fact of a common nature. Man is man the world over. This fact is affirmed and admitted in any effort to deny it. The sentiments we exhibit, whether love or hate, confidence or fear, respect or contempt, will always imply a like humanity. A smile or a tear has no nationality. Joy and sorrow speak alike in all nations, and they above all the confusion of tongues proclaim the brotherhood of man.

Frederick Douglass

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

All his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

Francis Henry Taylor

The first thing Bohr said to me was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if I understood that he was a dilettante. The only way I knew to react to this unexpected statement was with a polite smile of disbelief. But evidently Bohr was serious. He explained how he had to approach every new question from a starting point of total ignorance. It is perhaps better to say that Bohr's strength lay in his formidable intuition and insight rather than erudition.

She set an attentive smile on her face, like a sentinel, behind which she could cultivate her own thoughts.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

I am anti-entropy. My work is foursquare for chaos. I spend my life personally, and my work professionally, keeping the soup boiling. Gadfly is what they call you when you are no longer dangerous; I much prefer troublemaker, malcontent, desperado. I see myself as a combination of Zorro and Jiminy Cricket. My stories go out from here and raise hell. From time to time some denigrator or critic with umbrage will say of my work, "He only wrote that to shock." I smile and nod. Precisely.

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

Jeff Lindsay (writer)

Came to... see you. But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye. Don't know why you... say good-bye. I say... hello. Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—

Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile
Is mirrored on my dreams,
Like evening's sunset-girded isle
Upon her shadowed streams:
And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats,
Like melody of spring-bird, notes;
When the blue halcyon gently laves
His plumage in the flashing waves.

Park Benjamin, Sr.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time