"Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness." — Christina Stead
"Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness."
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19 Quotes by Christina Stead
Christina Stead has 19 quotes on this site.
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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go…
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She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of…
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We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be…
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
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I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's…
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor…
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends…
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different…
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they…
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More Charm Quotes
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one of 826 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us…
— Teresa of Avila
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was…
— Kate Beckinsale
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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result…
— Annie Besant
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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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In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
— Erma Bombeck
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
— Anita Brookner
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,…
— Akhenaton
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of…
— John Buchan
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the…
— Sandra Bullock
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