Famous Quotes

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

Julie Burchill on Smile

More quotes about Smile

• "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

  Leo Buscaglia on Smile

• "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

  Dr. Seuss on Smile

• "Look back, and smile on perils past."

  Walter Scott on Smile

• "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

  William Arthur Ward on Smile

• "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

  Phyllis Diller on Smile

More quotes by Julie Burchill

• "I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness."

• "As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be."

• "As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money."

• "Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable."

• "My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown."