Quotations About / On: SMILE

  • 41.
    Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Kent, in King Lear, act 2, sc. 2, l. 173. Recalling the proverbs, "Fortune's wheel is ever turning," and "Fortune can both smile and frown.")
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  • 42.
    And I shall sigh, when some will smile,
    To see thy love to every one
    Hath brought thee to be loved by none.
    (Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), Scottish poet, courtier. To His Forsaken Mistress (l. 22-24). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    We are put there beside the three thieves
    for the lowest of us all
    deserve to smile in eternity
    like a watermelon.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Rats Live on No Evil Star.")
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  • 44.
    I want to feel the surging
    Of my sad people's soul
    Hidden by a minstrel-smile.
    (Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981), U.S. poet. Heritage (l. 16-18). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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  • 45.
    Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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  • 46.
    Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
    Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
    That's where the West begins.
    (Arthur Chapman (1873-1935), U.S. poet, author. Out Where the West Begins, st. 1 (1916).)
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  • 47.
    The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
    (Jean De La Bruyère (1645-1696), French writer, moralist. "Of the Court," aph. 45, Characters (1688).)
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  • 48.
    Creation's blithe and petaled word
    To the lounged goddess when she rose
    Conceding dialogue with eyes
    That smile unsearchable repose—
    (Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 49.
    He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Maria, in Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 2, l. 78-80. On Malvolio, referring to the mew Mercator map of 1600, showing the East Indies in full.)
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  • 50.
    There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
    (Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. The Physiology of Marriage, Meditation Number II, Canel (1829). Balzac's generalizations about marriage.)
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