Only Smile Quotes

#1. I shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

E. E. Cummings

#2. When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

Vincent Bugliosi

#3. I don't remember the time where a smile actually meant happiness sadly, so many of my peers only smile to hide things

R H Sin

#4. Great success will only smile at the person who rejected to sit down with people without ambitions.

Osunsakin Adewale

#5. That smile, right there?"
"Yeah?"
"I've known you my entire life. You only smile like that for me.

Amy Lane

#6. But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Desmond Tutu

#7. "There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains."

Laura Kinsale

#8. Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day

Nick Drake

#9. Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Love makes me incredible to enter in the new life and smile makes me happier in my life, Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. I love to be a part of your life when I am depressed there is only smile & kindness that attracts me.#Love#Dimple:p

Avinash Advani

#11. The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Bobby Orr

#12. I had found that Americans were quick to smile when they greeted you, but often the smile was only on the surface

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

#13. The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

#14. And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn't learned self-consciousness
knew how to smile.

Alexis Hall

#15. You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. The only people that should be in your life are ones that make you smile.

Christine Minasian

#17. God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

Dar Williams

#18. I usually only draw myself in down periods ... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

David Hockney

#19. Kaitlyn Parker has popped Martin Sandeke's spooning cherry." I felt his smile grow just before he said, "It's only fair. I hope to pop your forking cherry.

Penny Reid

#20. Always behold
not only your own smile
but also the smile
of someone else's joy

Mario

#21. I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract.

Elie Wiesel

#22. Her green eyes shone when i asked questions and she gave me the siren smile each time i clued in. That smile only made me want to learn more.

Katie McGarry

#23. Why is Anthony Amowitz using his pimp smile on you?"
"You're only calling him a pimp because he's here. At Marcie's."
"Yeah, so?"
"He's being nice." I elbowed her. "Smile back."
"Being nice? He's being horny.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#24. Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.

Natasha Pulley

#25. We wrote our reports and sent them off to Dr Bairstow, who presented himself punctually at 0930 every morning to stare at us. It was beyond his nature to smile and encourage, so we could only assume he was there to intimidate any lingering

Jodi Taylor

#26. Robina Fairfax's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own, so variously coloured and oddly shaped were they.

Barbara Pym

#27. His smile was a pitying, sad kind of smile, reserved only for when a person knows there's nothing that can be said to make things right.

Renee Carlino

#28. He leans in, and I smile against his lips, finally give up and let his love flood in and carve the last of my stone heart into a new shape I'm only just discovering.
Somehow it doesn't feel like a surrender.
It feels like a victory.

Kiersten White

#29. Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.

Sri Chinmoy

#30. Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.

Philip K. Dick

#31. Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However ... I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

Carl Henegan

#32. Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.

Nicola Yoon

#33. Julian smiled what I thought of as the smile of an only son, someone who believed he would always get what he wanted.

Emma Cline

#34. I raised my hand to hit her. She didn't flinch only stared into my eyes like I dare you to. I never physically abused Veronica but she knew how to take me there. Watching the arrogant smile spread across her face, pissed me off.

K.C. Blaze

#35. Thanks, Edden," I said, truly pleased that he was sending someone for Jenks not only because now I didn't have to, but that he'd thought of Jenks at all. "You're a peach."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," he said, and I could hear his smile. "I bet you say that to all the captains.

Kim Harrison

#36. I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.

Judy Holliday

#37. I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Rumi

#38. A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

Omar Kiam

#39. It's better to not think about the night and how badly I want her, so I let it sort of stew there in my mind instead. And when I get her all to myself again, I'll be grateful just to see her smile, just to have her with me.
Even if it's only for one more night.

Amanda Lance

#40. God had given him a gift when he opened his eyes to see her smile and the lovely glimmer of fathomless green pools. Her gaze reminded him of the rolling hills of his beloved Scotland. With Eva, he was home. With her in his arms, he could achieve anything - fear nothing. If only...

Amy Jarecki

#41. Two windows," she said with a smile. "And there's no such word as besweatered." "It's like bespectacled, only with a sweater.

Janet Evanovich

#42. You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

Nathan Filer

#43. It was like that afore you got here, it's like that now, and it's going to be like that when you and me are gone, departed and left, and so there is only one rule, swing with it and smile.

David Halberstam

#44. A smile is a smile, only when it makes someone else smile.

Vishnu Kanchan

#45. We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Sheila Heti

#46. Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

Umberto Eco

#47. Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.

Anurag Anand

#48. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R R Martin

#49. One of the greatest kings?" My smile widened. "That's it? Why not the greatest?"
"This will only make your arrogance worse, I'm sure."
"Really? Do you think that's possible?

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#50. Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#51. Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

Mother Teresa

#52. So what, you her daddy or something?" the little goon laughs at Tank. Tank steps around me right up to the guy. Tank's got a good eighty pounds and nine inches on him. The little goon looks even smaller standing by Tank. "Only when I'm fuckin' her," Tank retorts with a satisfied smile.

Jaci J.

#53. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Thomas Paine

#54. Wing watched her leave and turned to Otto. 'My father once told me that only the foolish man pulls on the tiger's tail as it dangles from the tree.' It was the first time that Otto had seen him smile.

Otto grinned at Wing. 'True, but how else do you find out if it's a tiger at all?

Mark Walden

#55. I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

Ben Webster

#56. Behind your enemy's smile lies treachery. Show him that behind yours lies steel. Fail to do so, and you only make him bolder.

C.L. Wilson

#57. Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

Josh Groban

#58. Not only did he have the body of a Greek fucking god, but his smile, his eyes, and his laugh lit my life.

Adriane Leigh

#59. Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

Kate Morton

#60. They have hopes and dreams that may echo or overlap your own. And there's no reason why you can't make room for them. But what's happening to you right now, precisely at this instant, belongs only to you. Own it ... This is your moment. Let someone else take the picture ... just smile.

Michael J. Fox

#61. True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. Where will you go?" "To the safest place in London," he says with a rueful smile. "A place that loved your husband and will never forgive Duke Richard for betraying him. The only honest business in London." "Where d'you mean?" "The whorehouse," he says with a grin.

Philippa Gregory

#63. Me? I want you to be sure." he said.
"You," Livia whispered.
"Me." His eyes were full of intent.
"Always you." Livia gave him her biggest, heartfelt smile.
"Five hundred." Blake touched her face as if she might be a mirage and smiled back only when she didn't disappear.

Debra Anastasia

#64. Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times.
Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day.
Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day.
What's happened?

Robert Holden

#65. Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.

R.D. Ronald

#66. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#67. Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business
you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#68. There are lots, a lot of people in this pillow factory that we live in all the time. I only know the ones around my squarefull, Flower on my left side, Street doctor=smile on the side that is righty of mine, and occasionally in front the Children8. My pants are tight on grandpa.

J. Peter W.

#69. Finch?" I ask him with my best fake smile. "Will you go to the stupid Sig Tau Valentine's Date party with me?"
Finch hugged me to his side. "Yes, But only because you called it stupid.

Jamie McGuire

#70. When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

Becca Fitzpatrick

#71. ... there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Albert Camus

#72. Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.

Anuj

#73. Beneath your skin are muscles. Learn to use them. It is your face. Your cheeks, your lips, your ears. Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls. A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. Learn to rule your face.

George R R Martin

#74. A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it.

George R R Martin

#75. Bronn himself, who'd only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, "They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it."
Tyrion had no such delusion.

George R R Martin

#76. He's more than just a good-looking guy and you know it. But, I thought, he doesn't have flashlight eyes or a cocky-bastard smile that can boil water or a voice from the heavens and most of all he says things like, It's only rock 'n' roll.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#77. From now on I'm thinking only of me."
Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way."
"Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Joseph Heller

#78. How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.

Bayode Ojo

#79. You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

Jodi Picoult

#80. He's got so much drugs and alcohol in him right now that about the only thing I could order him to do and expect a response on would be to smile.

Heather Graham

#81. And smile, sit and walk this way, too, thus free, thus venerable, thus concealed, thus open, thus child-like and mysterious. Truly, only a person who has succeeded in reaching the innermost part of his self would glance and walk this way. Well so, I also

Hermann Hesse

#82. I tried to smile back. Now, don't get me wrong. Sam Carroll wasn't a creep or a bully or anything. It's just that he was... well, he was Sam Carroll, for goodness' sake. I'd only known him for forever and he'd only followed me around for even longer.

Rachel Coker

#83. Breccan. My name is Breccan ... And you know I'm not talking about sex. Unless you are
" he recanted quickly. "Cause if that's the case ... then yes, I'm so there," he said with a teasing smile. "But only cause you asked so nicely," he added.

Madison Thorne Grey

#84. Sometimes a person can smile when you are feeling only the difficulty of a thing and the problem unravels before your eyes and becomes straightforward.

Rachel Joyce

#85. You'll get a lot of 'no' RSVPs to your next party," I said, brushing the smoldering bits from my costume. His smile only widened. "This isn't the first party I've thrown where fewer guests left than arrived.

Jeaniene Frost

#86. I imagine the future and I smile grimly. There's only one way to make that happen. It's time to fight

Pittacus Lore

#87. The grin got bigger. Shadow found himself remembering a PBS show he had seen as a teenager, about chimpanzees. The show claimed that when apes and chimps smile it's only to bare their teeth in a grimace of hate or aggression or terror. When a chimp grins, it's a threat. This grin was one of those.

Neil Gaiman

#88. The queen also toyed with the idea of making the whole of St. James's Park private, and asked her prime minister, Robert Walpole, how much that would cost. "Only a crown, Madam," he replied with a thin smile.

Bill Bryson

#89. A smile is his only answer, but it doesn't matter. I already know how, and it doesn't scare me: Damien Stark can see beneath my mask.

J. Kenner

#90. More coffee? Hodges declines with a smile. Hot can only do so much for bad coffee.

Stephen King

#91. He still looked so sad. Not a sign of the laughter that once used to be as much a part of his face as his black eyes. The smile he gave her now was only a sad shadow of it.

Cornelia Funke

#92. The dog wags its tail only at living things.
A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

Jean Craighead George

#93. A hint of jealously once in a while is not only natural but a compliment therefore, always smile and accept it graciously for it shows they care...

Virginia Alison

#94. Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Vera Nazarian

#95. The other guy is obviously meant for me. He's quite short. I don't care about that. I'm quite short myself. I prefer beta males to alphas. Only he keeps telling me to smile. "Nothing's as bad as all that," he says. If I were five years old, I'd have bitten him by now.

Karen Joy Fowler

#96. Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say.

Lloyd Alexander

#97. Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

Og Mandino

#98. Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"
I stared at him, shocked.
The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after."
Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks.

Ilona Andrews

#99. How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?" Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.
"The same way a man does."
"Which is?"
Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. "Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make do
without it ...

Patricia Grasso

#100. Life is a journey that cannot be survived, only well traveled."

"A great dog never leaves you. For all your days he will haunt you until you smile.

Stephen Fajen