Charm Quotes

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.