Charm Quotes:

You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!

- A.J. Cronin

topic: Attractive, Charm, Realising

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

- Ada Leverson

source: Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.47, tredition

topic: People, Charming, Charm, Charmed

Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Lucky, Charm, Lucky Charms

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Magic, Pages, Charm, Immaculate

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Half, Charm

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Inappropriate, Behavior, Charm, Inappropriate Behavior, Trays

The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Strange, Far Away, Charm

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

- Alfred Lunt

topic: Self Esteem, Quality, Charm

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Politics, Clinton, Charm

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...

- Ann Radcliffe

topic: Too Much, Virtue, Charm

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Steel, Charm, Traps

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

- Arlene Francis

source: Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

topic: Charm, Counterfeit

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?

- Arthur Schnitzler

topic: Hate, Charm, Love Or Hate

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm.

- Audrey Tautou

source: "Fictional character: Irène". "Priceless", www.imdb.com. 2006.

topic: Beauty, Charm, Valuable

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

- Augustine Birrell

source: "In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays". Book by Augustine Birrell, 1905.

topic: Book, Charm

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Charm, Verses, Wooing

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Reputation, Fame, Charm

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

- Brander Matthews

topic: Grace, Firsts, Charm

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm

- Brian Masters

topic: Evil, Charm

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

source: Letter to Sophie Germain, April 30, 1807.

topic: Sublime, Enchanting, Charm

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

- Carole Maso

source: Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press

topic: Gorgeous, Reckless, Charm, Luminous

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

- Casey Neistat

topic: Lucky, Instagram, Charm, Marshmallow, Lucky Charms

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

- Charles Perrault

source: Charles Perrault, Sally Holmes (1993). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Fairy, Charm, True Gifts

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

source: Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

topic: Drawing, Charm, Unfinished

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

- Christina Stead

topic: Self, Charm, Forgetfulness, Self Forgetfulness

Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.

- Connie Brockway

source: Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

topic: People, Charm

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

- Dean Koontz

topic: Quality, Civility, Charm

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

- Dorothy Draper

topic: Believe, Design, Charm, Interior Design, Decorators

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...

- Dorothy Osborne

source: Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653

topic: Letters, Easy, Charm, Hard Words

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

- Drake

topic: Knowing, Charm

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Men, Literature, Charm, Decoration

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

- Edgar Saltus

source: Edgar Saltus (1925). “The Uplands of Dream”

topic: Beautiful, Neglect, Charm

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

- Edouard Manet

topic: Country, Charm

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

- Eliza Haywood

source: Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press

topic: Giving, Admiration, Charm, Stages Of Life, Amiable

I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!

- Erica Durance

source: "Erica Durance: The 'Smallville' Death Will Break Your Heart". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 23, 2009.

topic: Charm

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

- Ethel Smyth

source: Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

topic: Civilization, Charm, Convenience, Seclusion

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

- Euripides

topic: Wise, Charm, Worthless

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Women, Charm, Women Beauty

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

- Gene Sarazen

topic: Golf, Charm, Sock

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

- Gene Tierney

topic: Nature, Charm, Not Sure, Jack Kennedy

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

- Gene Wolfe

source: Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan

topic: Powerful, Passion, Charm, Madden

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

- George Crabbe

topic: Fields, Charm, Flocks

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

source: "To Myra". line 21,

topic: Beauty, Be Kind, Charm

Sympathy is the charm of human life ...

- Grace Aguilar

source: Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65

topic: Charm, Human Life, Humans

Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!

- Grant Imahara

topic: Charm, Hopefully, Mythbusters

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Life, Looks, Charm

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Humorous, Charm, Minutes

Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!

- Harry Graham

topic: Saws, Charm

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

- Havelock Ellis

topic: Mean, Men, Charm, Brute Force, Employing

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Love, Quality, Charm

I didn't get the charm gene.

- Henry Paulson

topic: Genes, Charm

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Happiness, Cheerful, Charm

Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found.

- Hermann Buhl

topic: Giving, Relentless, Charm, Mountaineering, Relentless Pursuit

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Pity, Charm, Sweetest

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

- Ian Frazier

topic: Song, Charm

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

topic: Use, Charm, Should

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Needs, Matter, Charm

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

- Jean Lorrain

topic: Strong, Horror, Charm, Horror Genre

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

- Jeremy Irons

topic: Character, Technique, Charm

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

- Jerome Robbins

topic: Kids, Secret, Charm

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

- John Buchan

source: John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

topic: Fishing, Charm, Pursuit, Elusive, Funny Fish

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

- John Milton

topic: Song, Soul, Charm, Paradise Lost Book 2

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

- Jose Marti

topic: Unexpected, Charm

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Criticism, Charm, Should, Amenities

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

- Kathleen Winsor

topic: Thinking, Wonderful, Charm

This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.

- Ken Ludwig

topic: New York, Buffalo, Charm

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.382, A&C Black

topic: Thinking, Charm

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Insane, Charm, Occasions

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

- Leon Battista Alberti

topic: Color, Next, Charm

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

- Liliʻuokalani

topic: Passion, Knowledge, Charm

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

- Loretta Young

topic: Self, Selfishness, Charm, Self Absorption

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Add, Rivalry, Charm

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

- Lucille Kallen

source: Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

topic: Charm

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

- Lucretius

topic: Poetry, Touching, Charm

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

- Lydia Lunch

topic: Facts, Charm

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Philosophical, Charm, Brevity

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Grace, Want, Charm, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

- Margery Wilson

topic: Lying, Self, Charm

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

- Mark Twain

topic: Motivational, Temptation, Charm, Desirable, Power And Control

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Plant, Charm, Feels

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Loneliness, Tranquility, Charm

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

- Nicolas Berggruen

topic: Brunch, Boring, Charm

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Past, Charm, Past And Present, Past Present Future Love, Past Present

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Party, Deception, Charm

Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

- Ovid

topic: Charming, Charm

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

- Patti Page

topic: Art, Charm

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.

- Paul Bowles

topic: Matter, Charm, Wanted

I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.

- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

topic: Class, Quality, Charm

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

- Pope Pius IV

topic: Sea, Dominion, Charm

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

- Rachel

topic: People, Building, Charm

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

- Regina Maria Roche

topic: Seductive, Speech, Charm

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

- Richard Avedon

topic: Thinking, People, Charm

Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.

- Robert Greene

topic: Real, Action, Charm, Helpfulness

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

- Robert Smith Surtees

source: Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”

topic: Country, Charm, Cheapness

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

- Roberto Unger

topic: Country, Men, Charm, Charmers

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Firsts, Sometimes, Charm, Third Time

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

- Sharon Lee

source: Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2010). “The Dragon Variation”, p.10, Baen Publishing Enterprises

topic: Return, Charm, Brevity

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

- Sir Fulke Greville

topic: Appreciation, Conversation, Charm

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Attachment, Divine, Charm

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

- Stanisław I Leszczyński

topic: Respect, Heart, Charm

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

- Tacitus

source: "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

topic: Secret, Charm, Forbidden

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

- Theodore Gordon

source: Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

topic: Fishing, Fly Fishing, Charm, Always Learning, Trout Fishing

The secret of charm is bullshit.

- Tyrone Power

topic: Bullshit, Secret, Charm

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Queens, Meter, Charm

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

- Vin Scully

topic: Baseball, Form, Charm

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

- Washington Irving

topic: Divinity, Talent, Charm

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

- Wesley Snipes

topic: Handsome, Charm, Figures, Beautiful People, Charmers

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,

- Willie Sutton

source: Willie Sutton, Edward Linn (2004). “Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber”, p.111, Broadway Books

topic: Personality, Charm

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Personality, Charm, Wit

[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

- Gretl Braun

topic: People, Charm, Knows, Definite

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

- Jason Roy

topic: Charm, Said

He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.

- Joanna Page

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Girl, Gorgeous, Charm

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

topic: Love, Pleasure, Charm

There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm.

- Moon Jong-up

topic: Thinking, Color, Charm

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

- Ryan O'Neal

topic: Flippant, Charm

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

- Tod Papageorge

topic: Snapshots, Photographer, Charm, Wild Strawberries

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

- Arthur Frederick Saunders

topic: Would Be, Charm, Dean

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

- Arthur Schnitzler

source: "Professor Bernhardi: A Comedy".

topic: Hate, Charm, Love Or Hate

I used to collect charms and bracelets.

- Natalie Grant

topic: Charm, Used, Bracelet

To some people everything is permitted.

- Christina, Queen of Sweden

topic: People, Charm

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

- Clark Ashton Smith

topic: Real, Impossible, Charm

I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.

- Cory Arcangel

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Screw Ups, Way, Charm

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

- Fergus Henderson

topic: Winning, Charm, Enjoy, Tripe

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

- Frank Kermode

source: Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.21, Oxford University Press

topic: Book, Charm, Ends

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

- Ronaldinho

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ugly, Charm, I Am Ugly

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

- Rosita Forbes

source: Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

topic: Desert, Charm, Subtle

Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.

- Jean-Paul Belmondo

topic: Looks, Forget, Charm

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

- Madame Roland

topic: Sadness, Melancholy, Charm

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

topic: Thinking, Peaceful, Charm

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.61, e-artnow

topic: Literature, Riches, Charm

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Powerful, Opiates, Charm

You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.

- A.J. Cronin

source: "The Citadel". Book by A.J. Cronin, 1937.

topic: Attractive, Charm, Realising

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

- Jason Mraz

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Mad, Scientist, Charm, Mad Scientist

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Charm, Resources, Conversation

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

topic: Charm, British, Grammar

Power without abuse loses its charm.

- Paul Valery

topic: Abuse, Charm, Loses

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

- Chris Hayes

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Evil, Charm, Screenwriting

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Beauty, Art, Charm

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

topic: Giving Up, Female, Charm

There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

- Christina Aguilera

source: Song: Candyman, Album: Back to Basics, 2006

topic: Boys, Danger, Charm, Closed Mind, Resourceful

The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you.

- Frederick William Robertson

source: Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.176

topic: Men, Mind, Charm

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Real, Horror, Charm

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Resistance, Charm, Obvious

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.272, Modern Library

topic: Hate, Women, Charm

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

topic: Hate, Forget, Charm

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

- Lucretius

source: Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.4

topic: Goddess, Charm, Immortal

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.13, e-artnow

topic: Charm, Theory

Why, so you can charm my panties off again?

- Jill Shalvis

topic: Charm, Panties

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Slugs, Hunger, Charm, Hunger Games Book, Capitol In Hunger Games

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Easier, Charm

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

- Clive Barker

topic: Theatre, Ephemeral, Charm

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

- Marcel Proust

source: "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time".

topic: Literature, Swiftness, Charm

Manners form the great charm of women.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Manners, Charm, Form

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

- Dante Alighieri

source: "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI. 93, 1321.

topic: Doubt, Charm, Doubted

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

- Mark Gatiss

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Different, Conan, Charm, Moriarty

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2008). “Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Dresses, Half, Charm

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.267

topic: Rome, Thrill, Charm

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Quality, Charm, Wit

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

- Mason Cooley

topic: New York, Los Angeles, Charm

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

- Mason Cooley

source: "City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

topic: Nonsense, Charm

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

- Dean Acheson

source: "Al Sharpton Goes Hollywood". www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2004.

topic: Sex, Charm, Used

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.415, Knopf

topic: Fiction, Charm, Autobiography

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Awards, Host, Charm, Academy Awards, Third Time

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes ... Author's edition, revised”, p.113

topic: Silence, Delicacy, Charm

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

- Robert Breault

source: "10 Habits Of Super Likeable Leaders" by Dr. Travis Bradberry, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2017.

topic: People, Like You, Charm

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

topic: Clothes, Dresses, Charm

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

- Joseph Joubert

source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

topic: Art, Illusion, Charm

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

- Havelock Ellis

source: Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

topic: Mean, Men, Charm, Brute Force

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

- Robert Genn

topic: Bumps, Odd, Charm

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

- Meryl Streep

source: "Hugh Grant Has Watched a Film He's in More Times Than Any Other Movie - and Additional Delightful Revelations From His and Meryl Streep's AMA". Interview with Karen Brill, www.vulture.com. August 11, 2016.

topic: Charm, Balanced, Persons

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

- Walter Scott

topic: Mystery, Charm, Womanhood

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

- Walter Scott

topic: Faces, Charm, Charmed

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.181

topic: Three, Might, Charm

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

topic: Sight, Human Nature, Charm

LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: People, Sometimes, Charm

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Mean, Feelings, Charm, Certitude

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

- Horace

source: Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

topic: Mind, Enough, Charm

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

- William Congreve

source: "The Mourning Bride". Book by William Congreve, 1697.

topic: Inspiration, Savages, Charm

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

- William Congreve

source: 'Hymn to Harmony'

topic: Mind, Calm, Charm

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

- William Cowper

source: 'Table Talk' (1782) l. 260

topic: Freedom, Slave, Charm

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

topic: Mind, Novelty, Charm

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 1, l. 16

topic: Charm, Harm, Provoking

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: People, Forget, Charm, Basic Things

Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?

- Nalini Singh

source: Nalini Singh (2007). “Caressed By Ice”, p.35, Penguin

topic: Gulags, Charm

Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1365, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Home, Charm, I Can

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (1795). “The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism on Their Works. By Samuel Johnson”, p.85

topic: Admiration, Charm, Made

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

- Elizabeth Taylor

topic: Powerful, Weapons, Charm, Blushing, Powerful Weapons

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

topic: Want, Breakfast Of Champions, Charm

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Moments, Pleasure, Charm

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

- James Joyce

source: 1922 Ulysses.

topic: Charm, Pins, Loses

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2070, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lunatic Asylums, World, Charm

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

- Evan Esar

topic: Flower, Charm, Perfume

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

topic: Art, Simplicity, Charm, Gloss, Simplicity In Art

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

- Oliver Goldsmith

topic: Love, Pleasure, Charm, Greatest Pleasures

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Clever, Weakness, Charm, Indefinable

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

- Oscar Wilde

source: "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

topic: Party, Deception, Charm

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Past, Charm, Curtains