Despair Quote by George R.R. Martin

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim…

— Guy Sajer

“He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his…

— Georgette Heyer

“Foolishness had never been an option in his life. He hadn’t acquired the knack for it. He should have known. Kisses, he’d learned through…

— Julie Anne Long

“My intellect, my wit—I’d forgotten I’d even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others…

— Melanie Benjamin

“I hadn't noticed before how his mouth lifted up at one corner, as if he found life to humorous to stop smiling completely. Such…

— Sharon Biggs Waller

“They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great was his…

— Boris Pasternak

“They had sadness in their eyes, yet their lips had the potential to smile.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen

War bent and kissed the forehead, that bright brow, ignored the chin and the sweet mouth, for that and the low laugh were his,…

— Hilda Doolittle

“This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar