"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the…" — Alexander Pope

More Charms Quotes

This quote is filed under Charms Quotes, one of 187 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. — Ambrose Bierce
• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,… — Charlotte Bronte
• When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,… — Akhenaton
• I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it… — Giacomo Casanova
• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy... — Abraham Lincoln
• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it… — Penelope Hobhouse
• A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give… — Jean Paul
• I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms.… — Martial
• It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle… — Orison Swett Marden

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