Best White Teeth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Neither my readers nor I are in the relatively sunlit uplands depicted in White Teeth anymore. But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory, but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and *reimagined* if it is to survive.”

Politics Progress Despair Optimism Outlook White Teeth

Book:Feel Free: Essays

Source: Feel Free: Essays

“Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending.”

White Teeth Zadie Smith

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE IN EAST LONDON BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NORTH. I AM A MUSLIM BUT ALLAH HAS FORSAKEN ME OR I HAVE FORSAKEN ALLAH, I'M NOT SURE. I HAVE A FRIEND—ARCHIE—AND OTHERS. I AM FORTY-NINE BUT WOMEN STILL TURN IN THE STREET. SOMETIMES. (3.81)”

Identity Racial Profiling White Teeth Zadie Smith

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”

World May Children Strong White Forget This World Luck Noble Hungry Teeth Chiefs Never Forget Good Luck White Teeth

Book:Jungle Book: Illustrated

Source: Jungle Book: Illustrated

“It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.”

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Author:Evelyn Lauder

“There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.”

People Ifs Looks White Fronts Type Healthy Europe Shining Teeth Funny Things Scandinavians Scandinavia White Teeth

Author:Charlotte Bingham

“What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.”

People Men Way Has Beens Stills Eye Black Dark White Figures Extremes Connected Invisible Teeth Black People Blackness White Teeth

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.”

Long Bigs Reality Beautiful Simple White Player Hair Fit Legs Teeth Tennis Entitled Privileged Spoiled Tennis Player Long Legs White Teeth Big Hair

Author:Anne Lamott

“I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.”

Ifs Years Shows Father Games House Winning Lost White Danger Grew Grew Up Hollywood Notion Teeth Auditions You Re Pretty Good Years White Teeth

Author:Chris Pine

“I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.”

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Author:Tim Roth

“I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

Loses Shadow White Teeth

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”

Water Deserve Clean Cards Greetings Clean Water Worthy Of Love White Teeth Deserve Love Greeting Card

Book:White Teeth: A Novel

Source: White Teeth: A Novel

“Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.”

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Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.”

Hands Bigs Eye Faces Spirit Black Dark White Secret Doors Mines Keys Laughter Skins Wide Teeth Heat Flash Stretching Kindred Black Eyes Kindred Spirit White Teeth Dark Skin Secret Doors

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”

People Want Divorce White Teeth

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”

Sides Land Despair Stronger Empowering White Teeth

Author:Zadie Smith

“I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.”

Believe Fun Homosexuality Heterosexuality White Teeth

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.”

Eye Lasts Found Black White Numbers Lord Saws Blood Fronts Green Sticks Ancient Teeth Recognition Guts Sweat Hung Drank Gave Up Thighs Iridescent White Teeth

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.”

Men Way Said Helping Eye White Heard Fool Approach Shame Teeth Manage Wicked Ignored Love Again White Teeth

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”

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Book:The Vincent Boys

Source: The Vincent Boys

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

Life Two Different Moments Happens Inside And Outside White Teeth

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Now, back to my vacation idea.” Finn grinned, showing off his perfect white teeth. “Just think about it. You, Owen, me, and Bria, all happily ensconced in a swanky hotel by a beautiful beach. Bria in a bikini. You and Owen doing your own thing, Bria in a bikini. Did I mention Bria in a bikini?”

Thinking Ideas Beautiful White Perfect Teeth Beach Hotel Vacation Showing Off Bikinis White Teeth Beautiful Beach Doing Your Own Thing

Book:Thread of Death

Source: Thread of Death

“Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.”

Looks Dream Light Parent Memories Dark White Perfect Clear Sky Hair Mouths Cameras Blue Teeth Flash Frozen Ink Vivid Drowning Starks Blue Sky Unrelenting White Teeth

Author:Lauren Oliver

“We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”

Believe Might Water Bears Goodness Worship Deserve Clean Worthy Convinced Cards Our Love Greetings Clean Water Worthy Of Love White Teeth Deserve Love Greeting Card

Book:White Teeth: A Novel

Source: White Teeth: A Novel

“And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.”

Ifs Eye Certain White Animal Skins Teeth Vampire Los Angeles Smooth Magnetism Bright Eyes White Teeth Smooth Skin Animal Magnetism

Book:Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”

Persons Stills Easier Pure Bags Globes Hoover White Teeth

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.”

Soul Might Eye White Rose Plant Raised Casts Teeth Her Eyes Elephants Tempted Revealing Ivory White Teeth

Book:Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

Source: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

“I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.”

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Author:Lorde

“American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.”

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Author:Max Irons