Curse Quote by Laurie Lee

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

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy…

— Meg Rosoff

“His smile had an attractive quality, the smile of a man of the world who used it, not to cover his words, but to…

— Ayn Rand

“According to an account in Anecdotes of the Telegraph, when his request was questioned, the man ran off, "grinning a horrible, ghastly smile".”

— Tom Standage

“Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and…

— G.K. Chesterton

“HIs great talent in life was to be a Good Bloke. He could walk into a room and sit down and everybody would be…

— Peter Carey

“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

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

— Henry Miller

“I was armed with millions of smiles. Apologetic smiles, pity-me smiles, I-look-unto-God smiles—name all the fake smiles needed to get through an afternoon with…

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

— Suzanne Collins

“I think he had a very, very good smile, for somebody whose teeth were somewhere between so-so and bad. What seems not a whit…

— J.D. Salinger

“He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”

— E. Lockhart