Oh! too convincing—dangerously dear—In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear!
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
—Philibert Joseph Roux (1780–1854) French Surgeon
Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.
—Unknown
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian Poet, Philosopher
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
—Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Political leader, Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, Critic
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
He does not weep who does not see.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
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