Charm Quotes · Page 22

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

— Alfred de Vigny

“This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm,…

— Michael Cunningham

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Gene Tierney

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

— Shan Sa

With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.

— John Cooper Clarke

Remixed songs in a way are helping the legendary songs revive their charm and reach out to the newer generations.

— Bappi Lahiri

Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“A charm has only as much power as one puts into it./ I wear it because it is such a pretty thing./…

— Justin Chin

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is…

— Tennessee Williams

I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves…

— Amy Sedaris

When I tell my husband stories of how I've grown up, he can't relate to it. I like it though, yeah, it's…

— Michelle Keegan

I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it…

— Chris Meledandri

I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to…

— Lee Unkrich

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The…

— Gustave Eiffel

How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very…

— Estwick Evans

We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our…

— Amy Carmichael

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell…

— Aristotle

Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have…

— Archimedes

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words,…

— Louisa May Alcott

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you…

— Jeffrey Kluger

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of…

— Branch Rickey

I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It…

— Kami Garcia

“Charm is almost always a directed instrument, which, like rapport-building, has motive.”

— Gavin de Becker

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

— Stephen King

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of…

— Epictetus

I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists.

— Yunho

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

— Herbert Spencer

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

— Libba Bray

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

— Sarah Dessen

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

— Elinor Lipman

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle…

— Mark Twain

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Clark Ashton Smith

“It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.”

— Robert F. Young

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

— Mark Twain