quotes about Charm
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You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!
-- A.J. Cronin -
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
-- Ada LeversonSource : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.47, tredition
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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 -
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
-- Alexander Pope -
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.
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The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
-- Alfred Lunt -
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[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 -
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.
-- Arlene FrancisSource : Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
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When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm.
-- Audrey TautouSource : "Fictional character: Irène". "Priceless", www.imdb.com. 2006.
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Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
-- Augustine BirrellSource : "In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays". Book by Augustine Birrell, 1905.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
-- Bayard Taylor -
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
-- Blaise Pascal -
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
-- Brander Matthews -
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm
-- Brian Masters -
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
-- Carl Friedrich GaussSource : Letter to Sophie Germain, April 30, 1807.
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The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.
-- Carole MasoSource : Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press
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If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.
-- Casey Neistat -
Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.
-- Charles PerraultSource : Charles Perrault, Sally Holmes (1993). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
-- Charles Webster HawthorneSource : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.
-- Connie BrockwaySource : Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept
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Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....
-- Dean Koontz -
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 -
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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 OsborneSource : Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653
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When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
-- E. M. Forster -
A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
-- Edgar SaltusSource : Edgar Saltus (1925). “The Uplands of Dream”
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The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
-- Edouard Manet -
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 HaywoodSource : Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press
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I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!
-- Erica DuranceSource : "Erica Durance: The 'Smallville' Death Will Break Your Heart". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 23, 2009.
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The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.
-- Ethel SmythSource : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
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A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
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There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.
-- Gene Sarazen -
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
-- Gene Tierney -
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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 WolfeSource : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan
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I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.
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Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
-- George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneSource : "To Myra". line 21,
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Sympathy is the charm of human life ...
-- Grace AguilarSource : Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65
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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!
-- Harry Graham -
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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 -
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
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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.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
-- Ian Frazier -
charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
-- John BuchanSource : John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson
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With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.
-- John Cooper Clarke -
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Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
-- Joseph Joubert -
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
-- Kathleen Winsor -
This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.
-- Ken Ludwig -
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
-- Khaled HosseiniSource : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.382, A&C Black
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The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
-- Leon Battista Alberti -
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.
-- Liliʻuokalani -
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
-- Loretta Young -
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.
-- Lucille KallenSource : Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”
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Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.
-- Lydia Lunch -
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
-- Margaret Mitchell -
Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.
-- Margery Wilson -
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
-- Mark Twain -
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[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.
-- Nicolas Berggruen -
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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 -
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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 -
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.
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We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.
-- Rachel -
Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.
-- Regina Maria Roche -
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i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
-- Richard Avedon -
Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.
-- Robert Greene -
The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”
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I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
-- Roberto Unger -
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Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.
-- Sharon LeeSource : Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2010). “The Dragon Variation”, p.10, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -