A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its… — Hermann Buhl Copy Share Image
Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Maybe even Mom wouldn't get it - why I doubt. Why I question. Maybe no one can understand what this feels like… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy… There is a… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I… — Ryan Babel Copy Share Image
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
“In Japan, people have something called their charm point. A coy smile, a twinkle in the eye, a faultless sense of humour,… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: “My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a… — William Banting Copy Share Image
I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed,… — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is… — Isaac Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded… — John Keats Copy Share Image
