quotations about smiles and smiling
There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Smile", Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
A smile is worth its face value.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Nothing is so beautiful as the smile of a countenance habitually melancholy; like a gloomy day, it is irradiated by a sudden burst of sunshine.
G. P. MORRIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
'Cause baby
You smile
I smile
Whoa
'Cause whenever
You smile
I smile
Hey, hey, hey
JUSTIN BIEBER
"U Smile"
Smile, darn ya, smile
You know this great world is a good world after all
Smile, darn ya, smile
And right away watch lady luck pay you a call
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
"Smile, Darn Ya, Smile"
A smile that glow'd
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
THICH NHAT HANH
Being Peace
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
JUDITH GUEST
Ordinary People
The thing that goes farthest towards making life worth while,
That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
W. D. NESBIT
Let Us Smile
A smile is like a candle in a lonely darkened room,
Proving light is always master over dreary, dark and gloom.
J. P. LUCAS
Wisteria: Fresh Flowers from an Old Vine
A smile is not true or false in the manner in which a conceptual meaning is true or false. It is truth in the sense in which one can say that a person is true, a thing is true. But it is usually not true in the sense in which a proposition is true or false.
BERNARD LONERGAN
Early Works on Theological Method
A cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Letters to Young Ladies
A smile is recognized in every culture and serves important social functions -- inviting friendship, showing deference and even hoping for appeasement.
MAX A. EGGERT
Body Language for Business
The meaning of a smile is, as it were, a meaning that presupposes a situation, a meeting, an encounter, a set of previous personal relationships. It acknowledges the interpersonal situation and adds a further determination, a further constituent, to the present situation. It does not so much describe the subject as reveal him, betray him. There is no deduction from the smile to the person, but by the smile the person becomes, as it were, transparent. He is in communication with another, and that communication is something that antedates the distinction between sign and what is signified, the distinction between the soul that means and the body by which the meaning is expressed.
BERNARD LONERGAN
"Time and Meaning", Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
The man who falls in love with a smile often makes the mistake of marrying the rest of the girl.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Those happy smilets,
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know
What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
CELTIC WOMAN
"Smile"
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew?
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
CHARLES READE
White Lies