Grinning Quotes
107 Grinning quotes by 78 unique authors
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Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown…
— John Connolly
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If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned…
— Ian Mcewan
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the…
— Maya Angelou
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How…
— Roger Zelazny
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Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I…
— Dean Koontz
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Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something?…
— Kristin Cashore
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Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites,…
— Kristin Cashore
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I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He…
— Katie MacAlister
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They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I…
— Meg Cabot
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She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja…
— Tamora Pierce
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He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps…
— Jandy Nelson
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Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for…
— Daniel Handler
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Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get…
— Cassandra Clare
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Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged…
— Rachel Vincent
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Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this…
— Robert Bloch
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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
— Khalil Gibran
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She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Grinning Quotes
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