Charm Quotes · Page 20

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

— Sue Hubbell

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

— Jane Birkin

“Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.”

— Karen Blixen

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

— John Erskine

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Never trust charm, it's the most powerful weapon in the devil's armory.”

— Anthony Gilbert

There's a special charm in shopping on the streets in real life, not online.

— Aryna Sabalenka

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few…

— Steve Waugh

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they…

— Patrick Süskind

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and…

— Terry Pratchett

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,…

— Lucy Larcom

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis…

— Anacreon

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

— William Bolitho

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

A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her…

— Anne Rice

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

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not…

— Plato

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won…

— Tennessee Williams

Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,…

— Gustave Eiffel

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar…

— Louis MacNeice

I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.”

— Brooke Hauser

That's the charm of Deadpool. He's charmingly annoying, and he'll be the first to admit that.

— Morena Baccarin

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Madame Roland

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

— Georges Braque

A woman is always ready to describe another woman as charming, but only if the other woman is not charming.

— Evan Esar

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

— Margaret Mitchell

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Horace

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

— Marcel Proust

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

— Anna Seward

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

— David Walton

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

— Josh Billings

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Rachel