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.
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'.
Booth led boldly with his big brass drum (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The saints smiled gravelyand they said 'He's come.'
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay— 1913 General Booth Enters Into Heaven,'General Booth Enters Into Heaven'.
The Harper smiled, well pleased; for ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.
— 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 4, conclusion.
Mary Poppins looked down at her feet and rubbed the toe of one shoe along the pavement two or three times. Then she smiled at the shoe in such a way that the shoe knew quite well that the smile wasn't meant for it.
— 1934 Mary Poppins, ch.2.
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.
Samuel smiled at me. "Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?"I nodded, and frowned. "They're important to everybody."He laughed. "Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions."
laurell k. hamilton— Chapter 17, p. 151
Never go to a public lavatory in London. I always pee in the street. You may be fined a few pounds for committing a nuisance, but in a public lavatory you risk two years in prison because a policeman in plain clothes says you smiled at him.
— as quoted by Diana Mosley (1985). Loved ones: pen portraits. Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 93.
She smiled, and the shadows departed;She shone, and the snows were rain;And he who was frozen-heartedBloomed up into love again.
john addington symonds— Eyebright.
Bert Williams has done more for the race than I have. He has smiled his way into people's hearts. I have been obliged to fight my way.
bert williams— Booker T. Washington [1]
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
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm, Yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new, In city and in forest they smiled like me and you, But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
leonard cohen— "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
hartley coleridge— "Song. She is not fair".
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— "The Devils Thoughts" (c. 1834).
"What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift."
anthony de mello— p. 152 (One Minute Nonsense (1992))
“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)
"I hate her," I said, and waited for the blow to fall. But Doctor Nolan only smiled at me as if something had pleased her very, very much and said, "I suppose you do."
Sylvia Plath— Ch. 16 (The Bell Jar (1963))
Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: "Learn what dwells in man." And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.
leo tolstoy— Ch. XI (What Men Live By (1881))
Shimrod said: “Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.” Melancthe smiled a cool smile. “And now?” “The child seems to have wandered away.”
jack vance— Chapter 6, section 1 (p. 436)
“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, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
wilfred owen— Wilfred Owen, Apologia pro Poemate Meo
* One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he, "So! you've a poet in your house," and smiled. "A poet? God forbid," I cried; and then It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent Verse to the paper; how they printed it In Poet's Corner.
— Robert Buchanan, Poet Andrew, line 161
Booth led boldly with his big bass drum (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The Saints smiled gravely, and they said "He's come." (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay— Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, General Booth Enters Heaven
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
william collins— William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 3
smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.
robert blair— Robert Blair, The Grave (1743), line 520.
