The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann Copy Share Image
'Spectator Books' is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It's… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
I'm happy when I see a girl on the bus, or on the street, and start wondering about her. Sometimes I see… — Christophe Lemaitre Copy Share Image
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works. She had reached a point… — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations,… — James Norman Hall Copy Share Image
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful… — John Muir Copy Share Image