“What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”

“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

“What are you looking at? Hale asked.
Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

“Those who are poor, smile at what they have, yet those who have good fortune, frown at what they do not have.”

Mário Quintana (1906–1994) Brazilian writer

“I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie.
I do what I have to do to get by.
But I know what is wrong and I know what is right,
and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“twice I have lived forever in a smile”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“What are you?" I rasped.
It smiled. "Whatever scares you.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

“Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer