“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

“Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.”

Helen Oyeyemi book Boy, Snow, Bird

“There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) — and you’ll smile and receive smiles…”

W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author

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

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“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

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

“Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

“Smiling is mostly about smiling more.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist