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Quotes About Smiling

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice. Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
~ Oscar Wilde
She gave the impression of smiling with difficulty, possibly for fear of getting wrinkles.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
An Italian woman came out of the house, wiping her hands on her apron. 'Mr Greenleaf?' Tom asked hopefully. The woman gave him a long, smiling answer in Italian and pointed downward toward the sea. 'Jew,' she seemed to keep saying. 'Jew.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Numerous studies have shown that the physical act of smiling, even while on a phone call, actually improves the tone in which your words are conveyed
~ Dale Carnegie
A paunchy man in a tuxedo and a black cowboy hat was smiling broadly at him. Great Costume! the man said, pointing to Avila's military uniform. Where does someone get something like that? Through a lifetime of service and sacrifice,he thought
~ Dan Brown
Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: They are like chimpanzees, she said, in her bitter exclamatory voice. She grimaced, baring her teeth grotesquely. Eee! she said. I smile at you! Eee! It is repulsive.
~ Dan Chaon
Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.
~ Tite Kubo
Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe
~ William Blake
Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.
~ William Carlos Williams
The noiseless wheels of my car rush with a crackling sound over dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.
~ William Carlos Williams
At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky.
~ China Mieville
Solutions-focused therapists believe that there are exceptions to every problem and that those exceptions, once identified, can be carefully analyzed, like the game film of a sporting event. Let's replay that scene, where things were working for you. What was happening? How did you behave? Were you smiling? Did you make eye contact? And that analysis can point directly toward a solution that is, by definition, workable. After all, it worked before.
~ Chip Heath
It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I do not need to explain to you, because now we are all speaking the same language. The waves still smashed against the beach, furious and irresistible. But me, I watched all of those children smiling and dancing and splashing one another in salt water and bright sunlight, and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.
~ Chris Cleave
We spent the night smiling politely at each other through this glass barrier that felt like it had sprung up right behind my eyes. Like I was trapped inside myself, and the me who danced awkwardly with her on the floor was this stand-in, making dumb jokes while I beat against the glass wall, beat against it with my fists and then my head...
~ Christopher Barzak
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
~ Heinrich Heine
how nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
People probably think I'm cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It's not about my look.
~ Liu Wen
Two hundred pounds of grief and heft if she was one-fifty. Bless her heart, just a babe of the times. Wants to be smiling and feeling good all the time. Smooth sailing as they lower the mama into the ground. Then there's you. What's your story?
~ Toni Cade Bambara
She's like an island Made of rock, with one lone tree at the top Of the only mountain. She's like the sole Incongruous goat tethered to the tree, Smiling almost as you approach, scraping The ground with its horns, and then-- Lickety split--lurching hard, daring The rope to snap.
~ Tracy K. Smith
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
~ Paulo Coelho
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?' 'Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes taking part in a great battle will be the thing that will help to change the course of history. But sometimes you can do that simply by smiling, for no reason, at someone you happen to pass in the street. Without intending to, you might have saved the life of a complete stranger, who also thought he was useless and might have been ready to kill himself – until a smile gave him new hope and confidence.
~ Paulo Coelho
The weather in Paris was unusually warm as Peter Haskell's plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The plane taxied neatly to the gate, and a few minutes later, briefcase in hand, Peter was striding through the airport. He was almost smiling as he got on the customs line, despite the heat of the day and the number of people crowding ahead of him in line. Peter Haskell loved Paris.
~ Danielle Steel
smiling. "Are you in the army?" she inquired. He
~ Danielle Steel