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Quotes About Frown

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
~ Aristophanes
Her face might be kindly if she would smile. But the frown isn't personal: it's the red dress she disapproves of, and what it stands for. She thinks I may be catching, like a disease or any form of bad luck.
~ Margaret Atwood
Is that dog of yours likely to cause trouble?" he asked suspiciously. Hal smiled winningly at him. "Bless you, no. She's as peaceable as your old granny." The waiter's frown deepened. "My old granny is always starting fights," he said. "She set off a riot in here last month. Cracked the skull of one of the watch with a chamber pot." "Well, Kloof is hardly likely to do that. She doesn't have a chamber pot
~ John Flanagan
A quirk of a smile. From another woman, the comment might have been flirtatious. From Carel, it came with level appraisal and a touch of a frown.
~ Elizabeth Bear
For a moment, Garrett permitted herself a frown at the waste of talent, though she could not say if it was because of the artistry was wasted on a maid, or because an artist was wasted as one.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She looked up into his face, and he could see that she was full of passion, and by no means in a mood to submit to his reproaches. She, too, could frown, and was frowning now.
~ Anthony Trollope
Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled! Must have been a mistake. I'll speak to someone about it. Won't happen again. Well, good. Because you could do your face and injury, just smiling like that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Life is like a mirror.Cry and you see a crying face, Frown and you see a Sad Face !Smile and it smiles back at you !
~ Sham Hinduja
They can't see your painThey can't see your sadness They will smile if you smile to themThey will leave you if you frown to them
~ Hadi NourAllah
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
~ Ayn Rand
If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don't recommend), you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound: "Rice Krispies." Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.
~ Mary Roach
I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
~ Bill Hicks
Thou, thou hast no pity save for thine own misery. It is like a remorse that gnaws thee, a savage madness that impels thee to repel the caress of a dog or to frown upon the smile of a child.
~ Gustave Flaubert
She looked angelic in sleep, dark lashes resting against pale cheeks. Her blond hair was tousled and in disarray and spread out. Over his pillow. He frowned. She'd even stolen his pillow.
~ Maya Banks
Tea?" Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper. "Please. Or anything that is hot." She pulled off her gloves, pausing to frown at a little hole that was growing at the tip of her right forefinger. That wouldn't do. She needed all the dignity she could muster in that finger. Heaven knew she shook it at the girls often enough.
~ Julia Quinn
There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.
~ Michael Connelly
Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus, said the cat with a hostile frown, and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
She paused, cast her gaze to Tehol Beddict, and slowly frowned. 'You are rather shy for an emperor,' she observed. Tehol refuted that with the brightest smile, and it transformed him, and suddenly Lostara forgot all about the man's martial-looking brother. Spirits of the sand, those eyes…
~ Steven Erikson
We humbly beg your kind applause," murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face.
~ Thomas Keneally
Lady Luck is indifferent. She smiles sometimes, and she frowns sometimes.
~ Lonnie Johnson
A forced smile is uglier than a frown.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
As he joined them, Lando felt a frown crease his forehead. It had been hard to tell through all the rest of their murmurings. But he could have sworn Winter had just said-- 'Winter?' he asked. 'Yes?' she said, looking at him Lando felt his lip twitch. 'Nothing, he said, and kept walking. Because, really, no one said 'May the Force be with us' anymore. No one but Rebels and religious nuts. And if Winter was one of either group, he really didn't want to know about it.
~ Timothy Zahn
Stop smiling. Every time you smile, an angel dies.
~ Kristan Higgins
Those icy bright eyes left her and shifted to his buddy. The frown didn't leave his face. You look like hell. And you're Miss America.
~ J.R. Ward