Famous quotes containing the word smiles:
“Beneath the sun’s rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
So Fortune’s smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut—”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)