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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘smile’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.” -Lord Acton
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“Just because a situation is grim doesn’t mean you don’t have every right to smile.” -Rashida Jones
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“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.” -J. B. Priestley
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“When I came into office, people said, ‘Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?’ Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It’s not an issue.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.” -Avery Brooks
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“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.” -Christopher Lasch
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“I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.” -Robert Plant
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“It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can’t believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.” -Nicole Kidman
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“Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.” -Abraham Cahan
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“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.” -Hank Aaron
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“Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I’d practice in front of the mirror and I’d ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.” -Tyra Banks
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“Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.” -Simon Travaglia
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“Go, forget me – why should sorrow, O’er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me – and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile – though I shall not be near thee Sing – though I shall never hear thee.” -Charles Wolfe
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“To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.” -Hermann Hesse
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“When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.” -Louis C. K.
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“What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.” -James Lafferty
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“Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they’re down, and when they’re having a good time, I can carry on the joke.” -John Krasinski
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“The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.” -Robert Bloch
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“As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody’s going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.” -Cat Deeley
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“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.” -James Thurber
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“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone’s day.” -Julianna Margulies
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“I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.” -Heidi Klum
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“Later in my life, I’m going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don’t give it my all right now I’ll regret it later. That’s very important to me, because I’ve worked all my life to have this.” -Shania Twain
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“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“If you’re able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that’s worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.” -Maria Sharapova
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“It’s inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.” -Arlen Specter
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“Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There’s one more argument for birth control.” -Freddy Fender
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“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” -Yoko Ono
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“He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.” -Emo Philips
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“Everyone looks so much better when they smile.” -Jimmy Fallon
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“You know, I’ve got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what’s wrong with that? I love to smile.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.” -Christina G. Rossetti
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“My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.” -Gena Lee Nolin
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“Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.” -Gerald Massey
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“The person that’s always talkin’, you don’t have to worry about that person. The person that while you’re in his face, he’s just lookin’ at you with a smile on his face, that’s the guy you worry about.” -Michael Clarke Duncan
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“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.” -Steven Spielberg
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“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“Being in a rock band is about touring. It’s about writing songs and it’s about making records but it’s also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.” -James Young
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“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.” -Brad Garrett
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“Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk. Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile. Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.” -Earl Long
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“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.” -Simon Wiesenthal
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“Luck is not chance, it’s toil fortune’s expensive smile is earned.” -Emily Dickinson
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“A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!” -Tom Wilson
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“I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that’s OK, who wants to be normal anyway?” -Tim Duncan
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“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.” -Doug Coupland
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“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in.” -Bobby Orr
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“A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you’ve scowled upon.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.” -Thomas Fuller
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“Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” -Victor Hugo
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“‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.” -Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.” -Les Brown
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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.” -Josh Billings
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“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.” -Honore de Balzac
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“And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.” -Jim Valvano
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“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” -Thomas Paine
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“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” -Mother Teresa
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“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” -Maya Angelou
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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.” -Richard M. DeVos
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“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.” -Winston Churchill
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“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.” -W. C. Fields
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“If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.” -Red Skelton
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“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.” -Greta Garbo
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“To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another’s breast is to become a principal in the mischief.” -Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.” -Robert Powell
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“If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.” -Lucy Larcom
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“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.” -Muriel Spark
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“Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.” -Thomas Gray
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“As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!” -Samuel Pepys
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“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.” -Anne Roiphe
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“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.” -Goldie Hawn
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“Children learn to smile from their parents.” -Shinichi Suzuki
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“I’ve always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don’t write about it.” -Robert Smith
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“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.” -Bret Harte
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“I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.” -Adriana Lima
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“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.” -Raymond Chandler
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“I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.” -Diane Lane
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“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” -Washington Irving
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“When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.” -Etta James
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“Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.” -Christina Rossetti
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“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.” -Jimmy Buffett
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“I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.” -Charles de Lint
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“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.” -Herman Melville
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“Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.” -Anna Lee
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“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.” -Andre Maurois
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“Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” -George Eliot
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“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.” -Desmond Tutu
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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.” -Jeanne Calment
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“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” -Denis Waitley
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“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
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“After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.” -William R. Alger
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“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” -Lord Byron
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“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” -Andy Rooney
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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” -William Hazlitt
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“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss
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“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” -William Arthur Ward
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“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” -Phyllis Diller
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