Charm Quotes

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it