Dimples

Dimples are small natural indentations in the flesh on a part of the human body, especially in the cheek or on the chin. In some societies, they are considered an attractive feature.

Quotes

• Seek in that cheek for the dimples that hide
  Quite from the sight; then a moment descried,
  Fly from your eye, half confessed, half denied.
  • Anonymous, "Borne on the Blue Ægean" (c. 1900), in Poetica Erotica, ed. T. R. Smith (1922), p. 252

• Then did she lift her hands unto his chin,
  And praised the pretty dimpling of his skin.
  • Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1602), line 661

• She smiled, and more of pleasure than disdain
  Was in her dimpled chin and liberal lip.
  • Walter Savage Landor, from Gebir (1798), Book I

• She had the mouth that smiles in repose. The lips met full on the centre of the bow and thinned along to a lifting dimple.
  • George Meredith, The Egoist (1879), describing Clara Middleton

• ... Adonis smiles as in disdain,
  That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple;
  Love made those hollows; if himself were slain,
  He might be buried in a tomb so simple;
    Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie,
    Why, there Love lived and there he could not die.
  • William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 242

• The dimples in
  Her cheeks and chin
  Are snares which Love hath set,
  And I have fallen in!
  • John Allan Wyeth, "My Sweetheart’s Face", in Harper's Magazine (June 1892)

External links

• Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 194