Smiles

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Smiles are facial expressions formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes. Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world, though there are large differences between different cultures. A smile can also be spontaneous or artificial.

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  • Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away;
    A single laugh demolished the right arm
    Of his own country;—seldom since that day
    Has Spain had heroes.
  • But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,
    Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.
    • Lord Byron, Lara, A Tale (1814), Canto I, Stanza 17, line 11.
  • A smile that glow'd
    Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
  • For smiles from reason flow
    To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
  • With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
  • Nobly he yokes
    A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
    Was that it was, for not being such a smile:
    The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly
    From so divine a temple, to commix
    With winds that sailors rail at.
  • My tables,—meet it is I set it down,
    That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
    At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.
  • Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
    As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit
    That could be mov'd to smile at anything.
  • Those happy smilets,
    That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know
    What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,
    As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
  • A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.
  • A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
    And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,
    While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
    • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 336.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations [edit]

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721-22.
  • What's the use of worrying?
    It never was worth while, so
    Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
    And smile, smile, smile.
  • From thy own smile I snatched the snake.
  • Her very frowns are fairer far
    Than smiles of other maidens are.
  • In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.
  • The smile of her I love is like the dawn
    Whose touch makes Memnon sing:
    O see where wide the golden sunlight flows—
    The barren desert blossoms as the rose!
  • With the smile that was childlike and bland.
    • Bret Harte, Language of Truthful James (Heathen Chinee).
  • Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
  • Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
    Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
  • The thing that goes farthest towards making life worth while,
    That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
    * * * * * *
    It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,
    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.
  • Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
    As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
  • There is a snake in thy smile, my dear,
    And bitter poison within thy tear.
  • The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps—does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
  • '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;
    For the test of the heart is trouble,
    And it always comes with the years,
    But the smile that is worth the praise of earth
    Is the smile that comes through tears.
    * * * * *
    But the virtue that conquers passion,
    And the sorrow that hides in a smile—
    It is these that are worth the homage of earth,
    For we find them but once in a while.
  • I feel in every smile a chain.
  • And she hath smiles to earth unknown—
    Smiles that with motion of their own
    Do spread, and sink, and rise.
    • William Wordsworth, I met Louisa in the Shade, Stanza 2. (Afterwards cancelled by him, not found in complete ed. of poems).

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