"HEEEEEEEEEEELP me." (begins groveling)
"I'll do it, I'll do it!"
"Thanks I knew I could con ya."
"That's alrig- what?"
"Oh no! Is Rosie upset because her widdle deal didn't work?" [points to her gemstone on her cheek] "Look, I'm so moved, I'm crying. Just kidding! That's my gem!"
— Aquamarine, Steven Universe
"O devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!"
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!"
— Othello, Othello
Reader, please note, women's lamentations are of three kinds the world over: With both tears and sound it is called crying, with tears and without sound it is called weeping, without tears and with sound it is called wailing. Golden Lotus wailed.
— Water Margin, Sidney Shapiro translation
Lots of actresses get paid a lot of money to make themselves cry. How do you make yourself cry? ... Turn around and, unbeknownst to him, I would pluck... a solitary nose hair. You ever do that? That shit hurts real bad. It's physically undetectable and it's going to escalate the energy of your argument very quickly.
— Iliza Shlesinger, Freezing Hot
Elizabeth: WAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAH!
Aigis: She is obviously crying crocodile tears.
Mitsuru: She's attempting to appeal to our emotions, hm? However, her acting lacks any true sentiment.
"Oh
I'm crying now
Authentic tears
They flow out of me when I think about you"
I'm crying now
Authentic tears
They flow out of me when I think about you"
— Lemon Demon, Touch-Tone Telephone
"It was the most affecting sight I have ever seen!" said Squealer, lifting his trotter and wiping away a tear. "I was at his bedside at the very last. And at the end, almost too weak to speak, he whispered in my ear that his sole sorrow was to have passed on before the windmill was finished. 'Forward, comrades!' he whispered. 'Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.' Those were his very last words, comrades."
Here Squealer's demeanour suddenly changed. He fell silent for a moment, and his little eyes darted suspicious glances from side to side before he proceeded.
Here Squealer's demeanour suddenly changed. He fell silent for a moment, and his little eyes darted suspicious glances from side to side before he proceeded.
— Animal Farm after Boxer is sent to the knacker by Napoleon.
