Charm Quotes

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.

I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.

[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

I didn't get the charm gene.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.