“A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.”
Source: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
"The Stranger"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.”
Source: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 13, line 66 — plate 14, line 1
Song (My Silks and Fine Arrays), st. 1
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
“From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.”
Hymn, stanza 20, line 184
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.”
Preface to Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century (1897) http://books.google.com/books?id=hAiaEy_NVoEC&q="I+rather+like+the+world+The+flesh+is+pleasing+and+the+Devil+does+not+trouble+me"&pg=PA5#v=onepage.
Context: Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
To Thomas Moore, st. 2.
“I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.”
Source: At Terror Street And Agony Way