“.. her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.”
Source: Roderick Hudson Ch. 1
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Henry James 154
American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916Related quotes

“Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.”
Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumque
ut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credant
subdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.
Book II, lines 557–559 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)