Quotes about Grin
Harrogate grinned uneasily. They tried to get me for beast, beast … Bestiality? Yeah. But my lawyer told em a watermelon wasnt no beast. He was a smart son of a bitch. Oh boy, said Suttree.
— Cormac McCarthy
The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.
— William Faulkner
How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale!How cheerfully he seems to grin,How neatly spreads his claws,And welcomes little fishes inWith gently smiling jaws!
— Lewis Carroll
"All right," said the [Cheshire] Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
— Lewis Carroll
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
— Herman Melville
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
— William James
How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
— Lewis Carroll
The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
— William James