108 Quotes About Smiling

A smile is a universal language, a bridge across cultures and backgrounds that conveys warmth, joy, and sometimes even strength. It's a small gesture with immense power, capable of brightening a day, lifting spirits, and creating connections. Whether it's a spontaneous grin, a shy beam, or a heartfelt laugh, a smile speaks volumes without uttering a single word. In this collection, we explore 108 carefully selected quotes about smiling, each offering unique insights into the magic and impact of this simple yet profound expression. Join us as we delve into these words of wisdom and let them inspire you to share your smile with the world.

1. “What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?” - Rebecca Wells

2. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

3. “A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” - Og Mandino

4. “You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.” - Chuck Palahniuk

5. “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” - Mother Teresa

6. “Well, that's an evil smile...” - James Patterson

7. “An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".” - Robert Louis Stevenson

8. “Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.” - Tessa Dare

9. “He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling, teeth and all. Had she ever seen him smile before? No, she realized, because right now, it was such a jarring thing to witness that for a moment it felt as though she was sharing the car with a stranger.” - Kelly Creagh

10. “You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile. -Uncle Kracker-” - Uncle Kracker

11. “I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.” - Robert Jordan

12. “Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.” - Vera Nazarian

13. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” - Mother Teresa

14. “But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles” - Anna Nalick

15. “Why be alone when we can be together babyYou can make my life worthwhileAnd I can make you start to smile” - Mr. Big

16. “But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine” - Jack Johnson

17. “He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.” - Dave Eggers

18. “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” - Kenny Chesney

19. “The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.” - Judith McNaught

20. “Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter?” - Georgette Heyer

21. “If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.” - Chad Sugg

22. “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” - Al Capone

23. “The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.” - Malcolm de Chazal

24. “Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscientious sickroom smile seemed to be whanging aimlessly against her front teeth. The sensation certainly was very unpleasant.” - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

25. “Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset--earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth--rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.” - Walt Whitman

26. “Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.” - Brad Thor

28. “...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.” - Michael Cadnum

29. “Nothing shakes the smiling heart.” - Santosh Kalwar

30. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

31. “The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.” - Santosh Kalwar

32. “She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time” - Ann Brashares

33. “There is thin line between smile and laughter.” - Santosh Kalwar

34. “If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.” - Kin Hubbard

35. “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes” - Jeremy Aldana

36. “Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33)” - Tim Willocks

37. “I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.” - Henry David Thoreau

38. “She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

39. “Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious.” - Emmy Swain

40. “I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.” - Anais Nin

41. “And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.” - Connie Brockway

42. “A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.” - Masashi Kishimoto

43. “You’re doing it again,” he said.“Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done something wrong.“Melting my heart with your smile,” he said.” - Mary Ting

44. “For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed myself be swept away by it, to drown in it - the way I'd done so many times before. The way I would willingly do again. Because at least she was here to hate me. At least I had that. I watched my daughter conjure up the filthiest look in her vast arsenal before she turned away with complete disdain. I didn't mind that so much. It meant I could watch her, drink her in without her protest. Look at our daughter, Callum. Isn't she beautiful, so very beautiful? She laughs like me, but when she smiles... Oh Callum, when she smiles, it's picnics in Celebration Park and sunsets on our beach and our very first kiss all over again. When Callie Rose smiles at me, she lights up my life.When Callie Rose smiles at me.” - Malorie Blackman

45. “I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.” - Melina Marchetta

46. “I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.” - Markus Zusak

47. “Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!” - Nicety

48. “You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile” - Bei Maejor

49. “Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.” - Margaret Mahy

50. “He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable” - Emma Goldrick

51. “Valkyrie Cain got out of the passenger side. She zipped upher black jacket against the cold, and joined Skulduggery as hewalked up to the front door. She glanced at him, and saw that he was smiling."Stop doing that,” she sighed.“Stop doing what?” Skulduggery responded in that gloriously velvet voice of his.“Stop smiling. The person we want to talk to lives in the only dark house on a bright street. That’s not a good sign.”“I didn’t realise I was smiling,” he said. They stopped at the door, and Skulduggery made a concerted effort to shift his features. His mouth twitcheddownwards. “Am I smiling now?”“No.”“Excellent,” he said, and the smile immediately sprang back up.” - Derek Landy

52. “..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.” - Henry James

53. “And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.” - Markus Zusak

54. “Smile awhile and while you smile - another smiles, and soon there are miles and miles of smiles and life's worth while because you smile.” - Kathleen J. Edgar

55. “The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.” - Ogwo David Emenike

56. “Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you already," he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

57. “Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are, love all the people around you like your family. then you are not alone anymore.” - Hiroko Sakai

58. “She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.” - Kristan Higgins

59. “There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.” - Neil Gaiman

60. “I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.” - John Corwin

61. “No matter how fleeting Your smile is,Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.” - Sri Chinmoy

62. “Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.” - Sri Chinmoy

63. “So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc," he said, watching her face light up completely.” - Amy Lane

64. “Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters.” - Emma Cameron

65. “There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful…” - Pablo

66. “All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.” - Chris Hart

67. “Okay, so, flying,” I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. “Flying is … great. It feels great when you’re doing it. It’s fun. Pure freedom. There’s nothing better.”Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face.“So the first thing we’re going to do,” I told him, “is push you off the roof.” - James Patterson

68. “Girls are always at their best smiling.” - Clamp

69. “Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

70. “You act like you're okay,Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown,And smile at the same time.” - Mimi Shannon

71. “There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.” - Raymond Chandler

72. “Look back, and smile on perils past!” - Walter Scott

73. “I bambini sono senza passato ed è questo tutto il mistero dell'innocenza magica del loro sorriso...” - Milan Kundera

74. “I sit up, edge over close to my window, and push it open, slipping one leg in, then the next, turning back to Jase. “Come on.” His smile flashes in the gathering dark as his eyebrows lift, but he climbs carefully in as I lock my bedroom door.“Be still,” I tell him. “Now I’m going to learn all about you.” - Huntley Fitzpatrick

75. “We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.” - Sheila Heti

76. “Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.” - Justina Chen Headley

77. “An honest smile is an icebreaker.” - Toba Beta

78. “For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “The smile which you wear today has healing in it, so smile BIG!” - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

80. “Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.” - Gabe Berman

81. “Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often...You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.” - Tom Giaquinto

82. “The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.” - Minhal Mehdi

83. “I've always been super aware that we could all die at any moment. This ceiling could fall. I could trip and land on this pen I'm holding. I could choke on my cold pasta lunch. I could be attacked by that pigeon eying me from my window sill. I could be shot...by a stranger...who lost something in their heart. Remember death is real. It's not scary. Living is the thing to care about. Don't hold grudges. Smile and make others smile as often as possible. Don't let jerks run the world.” - Colleen AF Venable

84. “One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger.” - David Schary

85. “We smile but I want more. I want her to hug me.” - M.J. Hayland

86. “If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now.” - Kathleen Peacock

87. “I'm wearing this fake smile.” - Daae ALF

88. “Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.” - J. Sidlow Baxter

89. “He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."- "Never seen it."- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell."His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.” - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

90. “Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.” - Kristen Ashley

91. “Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.” - Nadège Richards

92. “...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..” - John Geddes

93. “Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.” - Belinda Jeffrey

94. “You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up the dots with the freckles on you cheeks and it all makes sense to me. I know you've never loved the crinkles by your eyes when you smile you've never loved your stomach or your thighs and the dimples in your back at the bottom of your spine but I love them endlessly.I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if i do its you oh its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little thing. You can't go to bed without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in you sleep and all those conversations are the secrets that I keep though it makes no sense to me. I know you've never loved the sound of your voice on tape you never want to know how much you weigh you still have to squeeze into to your jeans but you're perfect to me. I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its these they add up to and Im in love with you and all you little things. You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darlin' but I want you to if I let you know I'm here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh. And I've just let these little things slip out of my mouth cause its you oh its you its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little things I wont let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its you they add up to and im in love with you and all your little things. <3” - One Direction

95. “الضحكة تَبدأ مِن عينيك!” - مريد البرغوثي

96. “لا تتحدث عن أحمالك ولولا مِئة وَجَع تلحُّ عليك أنت .. خُلقتَ .. للبهجة !” - مريد البرغوثي

97. “Smile is a good reply to the dark world.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

98. “The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

99. “It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult” - Ashlyn Macnamara

100. “I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.” - Steve Maraboli

101. “Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.” - Gary D. Schmidt

102. “Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.” - Bob Smith

103. “Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every phase of the life.” - Sahaj Oberoi

104. “Be Strong , Have Faith and Always Smile .” - Ra'ad Ammari

105. “every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

106. “When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!” - Louis Tomlinson

107. “If my stupidity makes you smile, I rather prefer to act always as stupid.” - M.F.Moonzajer

108. “Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato battaglia. E se fra voi c'è qualcuno che si sente abbastanza matto da voler diventare scrittore, gli consiglio va' avanti, sputa in un occhio al sole, schiaccia quei tasti, è la migliore pazzia che possa esserci, i secoli chiedono aiuto, la specie aspira spasmodicamente alla luce, e all'azzardo e alle risate. Regalateglieli. Ci sono abbastanza parole per noi tutti.” - Charles Bukowski