A Quote by William Shakespeare

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

William Shakespeare

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House Smiles Tears Venus

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

The smile that illumines the features of beauty, When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow, To vie with the softness of beauty in tears. The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving; Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears; But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling, And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

Henry George Bohn

I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.

Dalai Lama

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

Tupac Shakur

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

J. Sidlow Baxter

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

Hosea Ballou

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

William Blake

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Apuleius

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.

Elena Vesnina

My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.