Dimples
small natural indentation in the flesh
Dimples are small natural indentations in the flesh on a part of the human body, especially in the cheek or on the chin. In some societies, they are considered an attractive feature.
Quotes
edit- Seek in that cheek for the dimples that hide
Quite from the sight; then a moment descried,
Fly from your eye, half confessed, half denied.- Anonymous, "Borne on the Blue Ægean" (c. 1900), in Poetica Erotica, ed. T. R. Smith (1922), p. 252
- Then did she lift her hands unto his chin,
And praised the pretty dimpling of his skin.- Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1602), line 661
- She smiled, and more of pleasure than disdain
Was in her dimpled chin and liberal lip.- Walter Savage Landor, from Gebir (1798), Book I
- She had the mouth that smiles in repose. The lips met full on the centre of the bow and thinned along to a lifting dimple.
- George Meredith, The Egoist (1879), describing Clara Middleton
- ... Adonis smiles as in disdain,
That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple;
Love made those hollows; if himself were slain,
He might be buried in a tomb so simple;
Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie,
Why, there Love lived and there he could not die.- William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 242
- The dimples in
Her cheeks and chin
Are snares which Love hath set,
And I have fallen in!- John Allan Wyeth, "My Sweetheart’s Face", in Harper's Magazine (June 1892)
External links
edit- Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 194