Definition of smile

"smile" in the noun sense

1. smile, smiling, grin, grinning

a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth usually shows pleasure or amusement

"smile" in the verb sense

1. smile

change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure

2. smile

express with a smile

"She smiled her thanks"

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Quotations for smile

You smile and bite. [ Proverb ]

Many smile who bite. [ Cotgrave ]

The smile of God is victory. [ Whittier ]

The year's last, loveliest smile. [ Bryant ]

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. [ Charles Reade ]

A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A tender smile, our sorrow's only balm. [ Young ]

An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays
And into words his longing gushes. [ Wm. R. Alger ]

The face that cannot smile is never fair. [ Martial ]

A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown. [ Shakespeare ]

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. [ Campbell ]

Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile. [ Young ]

To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]

A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [ William Shakespeare ]

We bleed, we tremble, we forget, we smile -
The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry. [ Young ]

We often weep before we have had time to smile. [ Victor Hugo ]

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. [ Campbell ]

Of all tales, it is the saddest - and more sad,
Because it makes us smile. [ Byron ]

The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Better's the last smile than the first laughter. [ Proverb ]

Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look,
When hearts are of each other sure;
Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. [ Cowper ]

And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]

When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]

In came Mrs. Pezziwig, one vast substantial smile. [ Dickens ]

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Softness of smile indicates softness of character. [ Lavater ]

Spring has no blossom fairer than thy form;
Winter no snow-wreath purer than thy mind;
The dew-drop trembling to the morning beam
Is like thy smile, pure, transient, heaven refin'd. [ Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Even, children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. [ Goldsmith ]

Struck blind with beauty! shot with a woman's smile. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. [ Dr. Seuss ]

Flow, wine! smile, woman! and the universe is consoled! [ Beranger ]

A smile that elow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. [ Milton ]

No night is so dark that our Father's smile cannot cheer it. [ Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, and a tear for every sorrow. [ Sainte-Foix ]

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [ William Shakespeare ]

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

She turned to him and smiled, but in that sort which makes not others smile. [ Byron ]

Nowadays we no longer laugh: we only smile, and our pleasures come very near ennui. [ De Bernis ]

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! [ Campbell ]

Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]

Respect my independence! Lisette alone has the right to smile when I say: I am independent! [ Beranger ]

He smiled as men smile when they will not speak, because of something bitter in the thought. [ Mrs. Browning ]

A serene face helps to make a serene soul; a smile on the lips induces a smile in the heart. [ George Hodges ]

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, amaze the unlearned and make the learned smile. [ Pope ]

A soul only needs to see a smile in a white-crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. [ Victor Hugo ]

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? [ La Bruyere ]

The little babe up in his arms he bent, who with sweet pleasure and bold blandishment 'gan smile. [ Spenser ]

The cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. [ Moore ]

From yon blue heaven above us bent, the grand old gardener and his wife smile at the claims of long descent. [ Tennyson ]

There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. [ Mrs. Browning ]

A coldness or an incivility from such as are above us makes us hate them, but a salute or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.

Man has here two and a half minutes, - one to smile, one to sigh, and half of one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. [ Richter ]

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile; they merely grin. [ Bovee ]

I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with anybody; I do so hate it: but not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devils face. [ George MacDonald ]

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one. [ Lavater ]

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost! [ Bruyere ]

Under the assumption of profound esteem, the flatterer wears an outward expression of fidelity, as foreign to his heart as the smile upon the face of the dead. [ E. L. Magoon ]

When danger threats, the friend comes forth resolved and shields his friend; in fortune's golden smile what need of friends? Her favoring power wants no auxiliary. [ Euripides ]

A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile, often frightens away a prude; but, when real danger forces the former to flee, the latter does not hesitate to advance. [ Latena ]

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself. [ Landor ]

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them? [ Victor Hugo ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]

The old pool shooter has won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did all the other cues came crashing to the floor. Sorry, he said with a smile. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love. [ Haliburton ]

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

smile in Scrabble®

The word smile is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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smile in Words With Friends™

The word smile is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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