12 Quotes with the Smile Topic

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

George Eliot, Novelist, 1819 – 1880

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.They are but trifles, to be sure, But, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison, Essayist, poet, statesman and christian, 1672 – 1719

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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving, Essayist, novelist and historian, 1783 – 1859

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This is life to come, - Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

George Eliot, Novelist, 1819 – 1880

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Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.

George Eliot, Novelist, 1819 – 1880

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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Muriel Spark, Novelist, biographer and poet, 1918 – 2006

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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney, Journalist, 1919 – 2011

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

Desmond Tutu, Social Rights Activist and retired Anglican Bishop, 1931 –

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet, writer and physician, 1730 – 1774

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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller, Actress and comedienne, 1917 – 2012

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