„That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.“

„There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.“

—  Scott Westerfeld American science fiction writer 1963

„He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're…"

"Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.“

—  Scott Westerfeld American science fiction writer 1963

„He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.“

—  Melissa Bank, kniha The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Zdroj: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

„.. her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.“

—  Henry James, Roderick Hudson

Zdroj: Roderick Hudson Ch. 1

„Cruel and callous when on top, afraid and smiling all the way to the grave when not- that pretty much sums up the post-Reagan zeitgeist.“

—  Mark Ames American writer and journalist 1965

Part VI: Welcome to the Dollhouse, page 239.
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)
Kontext: Cruel and callous when on top, afraid and smiling all the way to the grave when not- that pretty much sums up the post-Reagan zeitgeist. And if you're not just as cheerful as the rest, "you've got some personal problems." You're a weirdo if you complain. It's your own fault if you're traumatized by a massacre. It's your own fault if you're poor. It's your own fault if you get downsized, overworked, bullied, and fail. Get over it.

„Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.“

—  Norman Rockwell Armatian 1894 - 1978

As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography‎ (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 198

„Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.“

—  Scott Westerfeld, kniha Uglies

Zdroj: Uglies

„He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.“

—  Khaled Hosseini, kniha The Kite Runner

Zdroj: The Kite Runner

„I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.“

—  Julio Cortázar, kniha Nebe, peklo, ráj

Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963)

„Cruel and callous when on top, afraid and smiling all the way to the grave when not- that pretty much sums up the post-Reagan zeitgeist. And if you're not just as cheerful as the rest, "you've got some personal problems."“

—  Mark Ames American writer and journalist 1965

You're a weirdo if you complain. It's your own fault if you're traumatized by a massacre. It's your own fault if you're poor. It's your own fault if you get downsized, overworked, bullied, and fail. Get over it.
Part VI: Welcome to the Dollhouse, page 239
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)

„I was born without muscles in my mouth, so I can't smile. But, I'm real happy. I'm super happy right now. I'm ecstatic.“

—  Joe Trohman American musician 1984

My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Honda Civic Tour (2007)

„[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.“

—  Louis De Bernières English novelist 1954

Zdroj: Corelli's Mandolin

„I saw standing against the great stone pillar — on more red plush — a tall, slim boy in evening dress — so much slimmer, so much taller, so much more poised than I expected. A very refined face, not at all like those grinning 'Lindy' pictures — a firm mouth, clear, straight blue eyes, fair hair, and nice color. Then I went down the line very confused and overwhelmed by it all. He did not smile — just bowed and shook hands.“

—  Anne Morrow Lindbergh American aviator and author 1906 - 2001

On first meeting Charles.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

„Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.“

—  Libba Bray, kniha The Diviners

Zdroj: The Diviners

„The pimp has a grin, never a smile.“

—  Jean Genet, The Balcony

Zdroj: The Balcony

„Smile to me, like the very first smile
You are magnificent when you're innocent.
Walk to me
Like the very first walk
You are from heaven sent when you're innocent.“

—  Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

„Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.“

—  Hartley Coleridge British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796 - 1849

"Song. She is not fair"
Poems (1851)

„She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, kniha Něžná je noc

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

„In meditation, the face of my teacher
does not come to me very clearly,
but your face does, smiling one way,
then smiling another.“

—  Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet 1683 - 1706

Zdroj: Attributed, p.21