79 Metaphors for smiling

There were three old maids, all looking sweetly alike; one was a cripple who walked with crutches, and her smile was the best and the gayest imaginable smile.

Little ElizabethI smile to write her name upon the page with theseit were a shame to cheat of beauty by any bungle of description.

Your celestial smile, shedding a tranquil calm o'er my perturbed spirit, has been my daily sustenance.

You cannot be eloquent by borrowing from the opulence of another; you cannot be humorous by mimicking the whims of another; what was a pleasant smile dimpling his features becomes a grimace on yours.

Now, that smile is downright mean of you!"

" I thought that, on the whole, pretty well; but, looking up at Helene, I saw that her smile (so different from that of the Io-Cow Katrin) had become a whole volume of scathing satire.

"The queens of beauty, whose smile was life, Ah, well-a-day for the rare old days!

Very early in life people find out that a smile is a weapon, mighty to avail in all sorts of crises.

Your smiles are commands, and the truth which pours forth instinctively from your hearts, is mightier than the logic articulated by any scholar.

Her smile became surer.

Priscilla's smile, like a baby's first one, was a wondrous novelty.

Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.

When she reached home that night she looked very white and weary, but her smile was all the sweeter because of the unshed tears.

His smile was a dagger, and his friendship was a snare.

These things being true, if it is wrong to work on Sunday, it is wrong to love on Sunday; every smile is a sin, every caress a curse, and all tenderness a crime.

About the straight smile was a wider, more triumphant quality.

But happy was it for this play that the very subject was its protection; a few smiles of silent contempt were the utmost disgrace that on the first day of its appearance it was thought safe to throw upon it; as the satire was chiefly employ'd on the enemies of the Government, they were not so hardy as to own themselves such by any higher disapprobation or resentment.

Her smile was faintly depreciatory.

As for Lydia herself, the last week had brought that thin face of hers to look all of its thirty odd years; and the smile which she turned upon her affianced was the product of conscientious effort.

"Then," still the smile of sneering incredulity, "it is clearly your duty to make it known.

What privilege is greater than to be with those who reveal the experiences of great careers, especially if there be the absence of vanity and ostentation, and encouragement by those whose presence is safety and whose smiles are an inspiration!

These things being true, if it is wrong to work on Sunday, it is wrong to love on Sunday; every smile is a sin, every caress a curse, and all tenderness a crime.

Previously Carl's full and joyous laugh had attracted scores toward him; now, however, a quiet smile was frequently the only indication that he was pleased, and even a sprinkling of gray hair was here and there seen among the curly brown locks.

His smile was a curious blending of shrewdness and malignity.

" Kent's smile was a fair measure of his unhopeful mood.

79 Metaphors for  smiling