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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Smile |
| A smile that glow’d Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book VIII. Line 618. | 1 |
| Struck blind with beauty! Shot with a woman’s smile. Beaumont and Fletcher.—Knight of Malta, Act II. Scene 3. | 2 |
| Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock’d himself, and scorn’d his spirit, That could be moved to smile at any thing. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Cæsar to Antony, expressing his dislike of Cassius.) | 3 |
| She turn’d to him and smiled, but in that sort Which makes not others smile. Byron.—Don Juan, Canto IV. Stanza 23. | 4 |
| The smiler with the knife under his cloak. Chaucer.—(Saunders.) Vol. I. Page 47. | 5 |
| I can smile, and murther while I smile. Shakespeare.—King Henry VI., Part III. Act III. Scene 2. (Gloster soliloquising on the destruction of Edward and his Line.) | 6 |
| One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (Ruminating on what the Ghost has told him.) | 7 |
| A man I knew who lived upon a smile; And well it fed him: he look’d plump and fair, While rankest venom foam’d through every vein. Dr. Young.—Night VIII. Line 336. | 8 |
| A villain with a smiling cheek. Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Antonio aside to Bassanio.) | 9 |
| The harper smiled, well-pleased; for ne’er Was flatt’ry lost on poet’s ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. Scott.—Lay of the Last Minstrel, near the end. | 10 |
| I in no soul-consumption wait Whole years at levees of the great, And hungry hopes regale the while On the spare diet of a smile. Green.—The Spleen, Line 440. | 11 |
| So wept Aurelia, till the destined youth Stepp’d in, with his receipt for making smiles, And blanching sables into bridal bloom. Dr. Young.—Night V. Line 583. | 12 |
| Their smiles and censures are to me the same, I care not what they praise or what they blame. Dryden’s Persius.—Sat. I. | 13 |
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