(31 quotes found)
“To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason."”
William S. Burroughs
“A smile cures the wounding of a frown.”
William Shakespeare
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”
Charles Kingsley
“Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?”
Eliza Cook
“I was the angriest little person imaginable. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years.”
Holly Marie Combs
“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.”
Jim Beggs
“The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.”
William Blake
“Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.”
Will Durant
“Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.”
Jack London