grin quotes

The Grin Will Win.

-Anonymous
  Campaign slogan for  Jimmy Carter's presidential bid.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.2,'The Pool of  Tears'.

'All right,'said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with thegrin, whichremained sometime after therest of it had gone.

-Dodgson
  The disappearance of the Cheshire Cat.  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Whispers of Immortality'.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

- Henry Fielding
Tom Thumb the Great, act1, sc.1.

Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.

-Ted (Edward James) Hughes
  'Pike'.

Armed with a notebook, ingratiating grin and fine intelligence, he grew to be a most discerning witness of America's most distinctive rite, not just the election but the making of our presidents.

-NewYorkTimes
  Of journalist Theodore H  White.'Teddy White, the Maker of Epics', editorial,17 May.