Charms Quotes
187 quotes by 161 authors
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her…
— Akhenaton
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were…
— Giacomo Casanova
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
— Abraham Lincoln
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To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as…
— Penelope Hobhouse
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if…
— Jean Paul
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring…
— Martial
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It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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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 the voice, warmth,…
— John Keats
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The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it…
— Alice McDermott
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I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places.…
— Isabella Rossellini
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The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think…
— George Dzundza
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I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles…
— Alicia Silverstone
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I am flippant. That's one of my charms.
— Ryan O'Neal
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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
— Lord Byron
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