Smiled Quotes
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When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
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More Smiled Quotes
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before, What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?
john greenleaf whittier— 1844 'The Pumpkin,'stanza 3.
Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?
jim butcher— Changes, Harry Dresden, Chapter 9 (2010)
Red Dog smiled. 'I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting Bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.''Sitting Bull's a name I know,' Yogi remarked, shaking hands.'Oh, I'm not one of those Sitting Bulls,' Mr Sitting Bull said.
ernest hemingway— Part 3, Ch. 2
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
john clare— 1848 'I Am'.
At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare, and I retired: The daughter of a hundred Earls, You are not one to be desired.
Tennyson— 1842 Poems,'Lady ClaraVere deVere', stanza1, l.5-8.
'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?'The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently.'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
karen blixen— "The Cardinal's First Tale"
The world was sad, the garden was a wild,And man the hermit sigh'd—till woman smiled.
thomas campbell— Part II, line 37.
But the sound of the church-going bellThese valleys and rocks never heard;Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd.
william cowper— Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
“Let’s waste a little time, hmm?” “A nice euphemism, sir,” she mused distantly. He smiled. “Come and help me think of better ones.” She smiled and they both looked at each other. There was a long pause.
iain banks— Chapter IX (p. 157)
'Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year, So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said: "Your green tie for my little yellow dog."
billy bennett— "The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog", line 13
And I said in underbreath All our life is mixed with death, And who knoweth which is best? And I smiled to think God's greatness Flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness, His rest.
— Rhyme of the Duchess; reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 514.
'What is all this? Damn me if I don't have you thrown out of here!' The beast just smiled and said: 'Damn you, I think you said? Very well!'
mikhail bulgakov— Book One in 'A Day of Anxiety', MG
The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.
Raymond Chandler— chapter 1 (The Lady in the Lake (1943))
I was quite surprised to find out all the places that he knew And so I asked the townfolk if his stories were true They said Old John was born here, he's lived here all his life He's never had a woman, let alone a wife. And very soon you'll find out as you check around That no one named Corey's ever lived in this town So I chided the old man 'bout the truth that I had heard He smiled and said Reality is only just a word.
harry chapin— Corey's Coming
She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?” “I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.”
joe haldeman— p. 54 (Forever Peace (1997))
“Everybody rich and happy.” She smiled. “Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.”
joe haldeman— Chapter 15 (p. 181)
And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief."
james weldon johnson— And the Greatest of These is War
And God smiled again, And the rainbow appeared, And curled itself around his shoulder.
james weldon johnson— The Creation, st. 7
“The trouble with you,” the Ugly Girl said, “is that you think you know just what everyone should do, don’t you?” The Mad Duke smiled at her. His face was bright and sharp, smooth and glittering. “Yes,” he said, “I do.” “And what,” she said, “if you’re wrong?” “And what,” he said, “if I’m not?”
ellen kushner— Part I, Chapter VIII (p. 82)
“Don’t tell me. It changed your life.” I was smiling. She smiled back. “It didn’t even change my mind.”
robert charles wilson— Divided by Infinity (p. 180)
On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep.
— Sir William Jones, taken from Enchanted Fruit, Six Hymns to Hindu Deities. See sketch prefixed to his Poetical Works. (1847). Also in his Life, p. 110.
One boy, one girl, two hearts beating wildly
To put it mildly it was love at first sight
He smiled, she smiled and they knew right away
This was the day they'd waited for all their lives
For a moment the whole world revolved
Around one boy, and one girl.
— "One Boy, One Girl" (1995)
I am the laughter of the new-born child on whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
— R. W. Gilder, Ode
“The trouble with you,” the Ugly Girl said, “is that you think you know just what everyone should do, don’t you?” The Mad Duke smiled at her. His face was bright and sharp, smooth and glittering. “Yes,” he said, “I do.” “And what,” she said, “if you’re wrong?” “And what,” he said, “if I’m not?”
— Part I, Chapter VIII (p. 82) (The Privilege of the Sword (2006))
I came at morn 'twas spring, I smiled, The fields with green were clad; I walked abroad at noon, and lo! 'Twas summer, I was glad; I sate me down; 'twas autumn eve, And I with sadness wept; I laid me down at night, and then 'Twas winter, and I slept.
— Mary Pyper, Epitaph, A Life. Same on a tombstone in Massachusetts. See Newhaven Magazine (Dec., 1863); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 233.
I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days A happy Christian child.
jane taylor— Jane Taylor, Child's Hymn of Praise.
smiled from the heart a fell sardonic smile.
homer— Book XX, line 301 (Worsley).
smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.
robert blair— Robert Blair, The Grave (1743), line 520.
