Charm Quote by Christina Stead Download Open image “Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.” — Christina Stead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charm Cunning Forgetfulness Self Self forgetfulness
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do. — Jean-Paul Belmondo 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 ... something… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people — Richard Avedon 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 always been… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What constitutes charm? A presence, a capacity to command attention, an innate conviction of one's own uniqueness, combined, as often as not, with the… — Michela Wrong Copy Share Image
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid to write to your father: he criticizes my spelling,” sneered Henny. “And it appears I know nothing about geography. Hang his stuck-up… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use.… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man’s idea of what… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other’s grasp till the end—the… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I don't know that I'm a free spirit or anything like that. I just have my own way of doing things. That's the charm… — Dave Schultz Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin 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 deal with… — Melissa Hill 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 of the… — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
