Charm Quotes
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.
Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
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 London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.
As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.
A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.