“The social smile, the sympathetic tear.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
Education and Government; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Smiling through tears.”
VI. 484 (tr. Lord Derby); of Andromache.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
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Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle. <br class="br">Speech, "Le centenaire de Voltaire" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Actes_et_paroles_-_Depuis_l%E2%80%99exil_-_1878#II_LE_CENTENAIRE_DE_VOLTAIRE, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris (30 May 1878); published in Actes et paroles - Depuis l'exil (1878)
“You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Acheron
“And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
The Rose.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist