The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Even after marrying Mallika, I feel that I am her boyfriend. In fact, I believe this feeling enhances the charm and fun… — Zayed Khan 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
No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent… — William Shakespeare 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
I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of… — Antoine de Pluvinel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev.… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“It's a part of life. You never know what you are going to get; you just have to be strong enough to… — Melissa Hill Copy Share Image
A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in… — Patti Page Copy Share Image
“She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“He’s an indulgent sort of man…… With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
