Irresistible Charm Quotes

#1. 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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.

Stacy Schiff

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

John Updike

#4. One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

Robert Gottlieb

#5. He looked so - what was it that gave him his irresistible charm? He looked so accessible. That was it. A great simple truth struck me with surprise: charm is availability.

Elaine Dundy

#6. Space and silence weigh equally upon the heart. A sudden love, a great work, a decisive act, a thought which transfigures, all these at certain moments bring the same unbearable anxiety, linked with an irresistible charm.

Albert Camus

#7. The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive - if their looks matched their charm and their cunning - they wouldn't only be dangerous.
They would be irresistible.

Nenia Campbell

#8. I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.

ASAP Rocky

#9. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.

Robyn Davidson

#11. Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Jeffrey Deitch

#12. To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

Charles Dickens

#13. The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

John Dryden

#15. The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

#16. Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.

Terry Teachout

#17. When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. We dare them to apply a principle for 40 days to their kids. They don't have to be 40 consecutive days ... Already people that even tested the book for us had amazing responses from their kids.

Alex Kendrick

#19. Or you just not ask her."
"You might as well slit my throat.

Dee Henderson

#20. Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Bertrand Russell

#21. The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Nigel Lawson

#22. Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

Karen Quan