Smile Quotes: Brighten Your Day with These Uplifting Sayings

"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it"

"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"A laugh is a smile that bursts"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on"

Robert Bloch, Writer

"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control"

Red Adair, Celebrity

"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile"

Gerald Massey, Poet

"The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom"

Guy de Maupassant, Writer

"I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile"

Julie Burchill, Journalist

"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink"

Earl Long, Politician

"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it"

Doug Coupland, Author

"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"

Sting, Musician

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