Source: Smiles to Go
From the Persian, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.”
"Sephestia's Song to her Child", line 1, from Menaphon (1589); Dyce p. 286.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 308.
“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.”
Méfie-toi de celui qui rit avant de parler!
Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885; repr. New York: H. Holt, 1917) p. 89; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (trans.) Tartarin of Tarascon. To Which is Added Tartarin on the Alps (Boston: Little, Brown, 1900) p. 241.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 790–794 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
