Wry Smile Quotes:

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

- Gregory David Roberts

topic: Angel, Wry Smile, Talking, My Guardian Angel, Wry

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Heart of the Sea”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Second Chance, Wry Smile, Long, Wry, No Second Chances

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Life, Good Morning, Keep Smiling, Empowering Women

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

- George Eliot

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Smile, Just Keep Smiling, Beautiful Smile

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

- Mother Teresa

source: Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Positive, Hungry For Love, Just Keep Smiling

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

- Malorie Blackman

topic: Kids, Years, People, Wry Smile, Wry

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

- Tom Wilson

topic: Happiness, Smile, Laughter, Just Keep Smiling, Beautiful Smile

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marriage Problems, Inspirational Relationship

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Life, Happiness, Laughter, Wry Smile

I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

- Gaelen Foley

source: Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.175, Ballantine Books

topic: Knowing, Squares, Laughing, Sulky, Convoluted

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: The Friend (1828)

topic: Life, Happiness, Smile, Most Heartfelt, Looking For Happiness

Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some injustice, "your white knight, he will come." One side of Callie's mouth kicked up in a wry smile. Anne had said those words countless times over the last two decades. "Forgive me, Anne, but I'm not so certain that he will." Oh, he will," Anne said firmly. "And when you least expect." I find I'm rather tired of waiting." Callie laughed half-heartedly. "Which is probably why I've turned my attentions to such a dark knight.

- Sarah MacLean

topic: Girl, Tired, Dark, Wry Smile, Wry

We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Way, Form, Hopefully, Wry Smile, Human Form

Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.

- Sarah MacLean

topic: Mother, Father, Mean, Wry Smile, Church Of England