Rueful Smile Quotes

#1. I am a sassenach, after all," I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. "Aye, mo duinne. But you're my sassenach.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. He gave me a rueful smile, his brown eyes so endearing. I could tell he was about to say something funny. I just knew him that well. That's like asking if I'm a fan of cancer. I fucking hate it, but do I know how to get rid of it? Not fucking likely.

R.K. Lilley

#3. Nicholas felt a rueful smile spread across his face. And a curse be on him for it, because now he knew her. She'd shown him her mind, and she'd opened up her heart, and now he knew the taste of her tears. And he was wrecked.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. He expects me turn up for the inspection, glance through all of this, and then scurry back to Ohnlei to get on with my life. Marcus gave a rueful smile. More fool him. He doesn't know I haven't got a life.

Django Wexler

#5. 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

#6. Clem rubbed at her face with her cuff and gave a quick, rueful smile. 'It's just so sad. It's the umpteenth time I've read it, and I will always think it will have a different ending. But it never does.

Anna Hope

#7. "I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window.

Carey Rockwell

#8. I leaned back in my chair, stretching luxuriantly, delibrately letting my jacket fall open. Predictably, his eyes moved down my body-some things outlast even the change. I grinned and he looked away, a rueful smile twitching at his lips. I finished breakfast in peace.

Karen Chance

#9. I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

#10. You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

David Antin

#11. What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

Richelle Mead

#12. It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.

Crystal Woods

#13. The true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. It is hard for me to imagine what it means to be a complete foreigner, a person to whom no one shows any sign of recognition.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#15. There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

Michelle Tea

#16. If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

Chuck D

#17. I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#18. If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

Jean Meslier

#19. Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Philip Kerr

#20. Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority.

Ben Elton

#21. Even at their most basic function, needles do two things: They give and they take away.

Ryan Graudin

#22. Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas A. Bailey

#23. Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.

E. M. Forster

#24. I love you, Callie. The war is over, but" - He smiled, a crooked, rueful, tender smile - "my life is just beginning," he told her.

Heather Graham

#25. Work hard at . . . something.

David Nicholls