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Quotes About Smiling

London is actually a beautiful place when the weather's good; the mood is lighter and everybody's smiling. But for the other 350 days a year, it's miserable. You're standing there waiting for the bus in the rain or you're waiting for a train on a platform and it's freezing. Always a persistent drizzle - or if it's not drizzling, it's overcast and cold.
~ Unknown
Next year when I take my holiday I shall certainly fly——" "But not to Rome," said Roger hastily. "No, not to Rome," agreed Aunt Beatrice. "I have a feeling I should like to visit Copenhagen. It is a very beautiful city I am told." Roger could not help smiling. He wondered whether he should begin to study Danish—just in case.
~ D.E. Stevenson
I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
~ Corbin Bleu
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Any time the other side - Karl Rove or folks on the far right - are going after my father for smiling too much, you know that's a victory.
~ Beau Biden
You'll have to be careful, then," he said softly, smiling. "It would be a shame for some intelligent comment to slip out at the wrong moment.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm smiling, Sherlock, because I know exactly what's bothering my wife!" "Ah!" I reply. "So—" "Wait, wait. I'm getting to the best part," he interrupts. "So, like I said, I really do know what's wrong, but I'm not that interested in hearing another complaint. So this time, instead of asking, I decide I'm going to—
~ Lori Gottlieb
Good girl lesson #2: When your BFF sends you a gorgeous guy, you call her and thank her. That's good manners. Good girl lesson #3: Stop scowling. You'll scare away the aforementioned gorgeous guy.
~ Jill Shalvis
You said you'd kiss me if I lost Tank. --- You want me to kiss you? Oh boy. You were happy I'd lost your puppy? He was looking like he was still thinking about smiling as he glanced down at Tank, tucked under his arm. No. That would make me an asshole. Right...
~ Jill Shalvis
Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
~ Jim Butcher
Why were you smiling like that?" "Smiling like what?" "Like the cat that got into the cream pot.
~ Joanne Fluke
I go back into the kitchen. There are mendiants cooling on a sheet of greaseproof paper; little discs of chocolate, scattered with pieces of crystallized fruit; chopped almonds and pistachios; dried rose petals and gold leaf. Mendiants were always my favorites; so simple to make that even a child- even Anouk at five years old- was able to make them unsupervised. A sour cherry for the nose; a lemon slice for the mouth. Even her mendiants were smiling.
~ Joanne Harris
She handed me one of the finished mendiants . A fat black cherry made for the nose; a candied lemon slice for the mouth. She had made all her chocolates into little faces. Features added in gold leaf; almonds, raisins, poppy seeds. All of the chocolates different, all of them marked with her signature: Love me. Feed me. Free me - And all of the chocolates were smiling.
~ Joanne Harris
All right, Monsieur Jay,' she said, smiling. 'I'll tell them you're OK.
~ Joanne Harris
Best advice in two lines... 'Silence is the best answer for all questions.' 'Smiling is the best reaction in all situations.'
~ Unknown
Silence is the best answer for all questions...Smiling is the best reaction in all situations.
~ Unknown
Don't trust the man who always keeps smiling.
~ Unknown
Maureen was a buxom, smiling redhead who had grown up something of a roughneck in an Irish-Slavic family in the Bronx and had a blunt way of talking that was
~ Philip Roth
We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the King was always laughing this winter and the Queen never stopped smiling.
~ Philippa Gregory
We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the king was always laughing this winter and the queen never stopped smiling. The
~ Philippa Gregory
Martie came out of the office first, smiling prettily, and Dusty rose to greet her, smiling less prettily, and Dr. Ahriman entered the waiting room behind her, smiling paternally, and maybe Dusty smiled a little more prettily when he saw the psychiatrist, because the man virtually radiated competence and compassion and confidence and all sorts of good stuff.
~ Dean Koontz
Buddhist Barbie In the 5th century B.C. an Indian philosopher Gautama teaches All is emptiness and There is no self. In the 20th century A.D. Barbie agrees, but wonders how a man with such a belly could pose, smiling, and without a shirt.
~ Denise Duhamel
Stephan's hand left his breast, and reached out. Grey took it, and felt love flow between them. He thought that heart and body must be entirely melted—if only for that moment. Then they parted, each drawing back, each seeing the flash of desolation in the other's face, both smiling ruefully to see it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Da mi basia mille," he whispered, smiling. Give me a thousand kisses. It was the inscription inside my ring, a brief quotation from a love song by Catullus. I bent and gave him one back. "Dein mille altera," I said. Then a thousand more.
~ Diana Gabaldon