Dimples

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

 * 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)