100 Frown Quotes

Following is our list of frown quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about don't frown.

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Famous Frown Quotes

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. — Hartley Coleridge

If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out. — Woody Allen

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. — George Eliot

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. - Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. — Samuel Richardson

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. - Rick Riordan

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. — Rick Riordan

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say "bite me! — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger. — John Rzeznik

A smile cures the wounding of a frown. — William Shakespeare

The pimp has a grin, never a smile. - Jean Genet

The pimp has a grin, never a smile. — Jean Genet

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling. — Carlos Santana

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. — Augusto Pinochet

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around. — Pimp C

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men? — Leonard Ravenhill

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. — Mark Twain

Short Frown Quotes

  • All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. — Chris Hart
  • The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun. — Rumi
  • Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler? — Rick Riordan
  • Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength. — John F. Kennedy
  • Percy frowned "You have a feast for tuna? — Rick Riordan
  • I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face. — Hayley Atwell
  • Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. — James M. Beggs
  • Arrogance frowns; pride smiles. — Mason Cooley
  • As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.' — Cindy Crawford

Frown Image Quotes

Frown quote You are given thousands of reasons to smile every day. So don't focus so much on the one reason to f
You are given thousands of reasons to smile every day. So don't focus so much on the one reason to frown.

Smile And Frown Quotes

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom. — Phillis Wheatley

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling. — Pam Brown

Smile, don’t frown. Look up don’t look down. Believe in yourself Don’t let yourself go. Just be who you are. And let your live flow. — Kirstie Alley

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. — Unknown

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. — Peter Kreeft

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause. — James Ussher

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out". — Joseph Conrad

Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd. — John Armstrong

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown — Elbert Hubbard

Don't Frown Quotes

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down. — George Harrison

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor. — Richard Armitage

She cut her eyes to the woods and whispered, "We're not alone, remember?" "I don't care who hears it. I love you!" His voice rose louder this time. She frowned. "Nothing's changed." "Everything has changed," he said. — C.C. Hunter

Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting --" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you . . . did you bathe in the River Styx?" "Don't change the subject." "Percy! Did you or not?" "Um . . .maybe a little. — Rick Riordan

I don’t think it’s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I’d like to see the world’s governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea. — Bindi Irwin

It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it came to boats.' 'I don't remember saying that,' Evanlyn replied with a frown. Alyss shrugged. 'Oh? Well, it must have been me. — John Flanagan

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong. — Rick Riordan

Smoke Ring for My Halo was the first album I bought of Kurt's Vile, and when I first listened to "Peeping Tomboy" I was really depressed and unemployed. But the lyrics are, "I don't want to work. I don't want to sit around all day frowning." I was like, "Ah! Yes!" — Courtney Barnett

When you're talking to a person about something they want to talk about then it takes that frown to a smile and then it makes the interview pleasant because hitting them where they want to be hit or hitting them where they normally don't have an opportunity to express. — Michael Bivins

I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting. — Clea DuVall

Not To Frown Quotes

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney

Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?" "Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain." "Done that once today," Jason said. — Rick Riordan

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. — Thomas Gray

She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing. — Abbi Glines

Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake. — Richelle Mead

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me. — Robert Jordan

I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around. — Jim Butcher

A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it. — Matthew Fox

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it. — Charles Dickens

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. — Charles Dickens

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More Frown Quotes

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered. — Ned Kelly

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. — Dale Carnegie

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. — William Shakespeare

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no! — Maria W. Stewart

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. — Ambrose Bierce

Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna? — Rick Riordan

Those who believe in equality of outcomes receive top-paying administrative jobs. Those who believe in meritocracy are frowned upon. — Gad Saad

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. — Richard De Bury

A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife. — Mark Twain

Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. — John Frederick Boyes

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

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail. — P. C. Cast

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would. — Susanna Clarke

An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline. — Sarah Miles

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. — Albert Barnes

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. — Albert C. Barnes

I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe. — Henry Kirke White

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. — Jimmy Reid

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you. — Bob Dylan

I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor. — James Otis

Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe. — Robert Jordan

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. — Ausonius

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