Definition Quote by Roy Peter Clark

“The word 'glamour' comes from the word 'grammar', and since the Chomskyan revolution the etymology has been fitting. Who could not be dazzled by…

— Steven Pinker

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in…

— Tom Robbins

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make…

— Virginia Postrel

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

— Sigmund Freud

I think glamour is synonymous with me.

— Malaika Arora Khan

“Magic happens when the wand of language strikes a stone and makes it melt, touches a spindle and turns it into gold, or taps…

— Maria Tatar

Glamour' is not a word I'm particularly fond of... I have an awkward relationship with it.

— Emma D'Arcy

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to…

— Virginia Postrel

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

— Muriel Barbery

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

— Zac Posen

“Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.”

— Brian Holguin

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

— Loretta Young