Top 100 Quotes About Charm
#1. If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#2. Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!
Molly Haskell
#3. Not a tie hold me to human society at this moment - not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures are - none that saw me would have a kind thought or a good wish for me. I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature.
Charlotte Bronte
#4. Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.
Ravi Zacharias
#5. She was taken to St. Mungo's, where," the Headmistress now sounded slightly perturbed, "a standard diagnostic Charm showed Miss Granger as a healthy unicorn in excellent physical condition except that her mane needs combing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#6. She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
Ann Brashares
#7. Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
#8. There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
Boman Irani
#9. The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
Hal Sparks
#10. What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct. So I spent four years attempting to charm the uninterested.
Tina Fey
#11. There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#12. The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
Vin Scully
#13. As for the charm and innocence I hoped to find -- it exists, it really does, but consider what it's buried in. Racism. Misogyny and homophobia so absolute as to be nearly universal. Hatred of the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese -- not that many of them are seen in these parts
Robert Charles Wilson
#14. History has shown charm to be the final ambition of the leisure class.
Amor Towles
#15. The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
Marco Beltrami
#16. When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
Sara Blakely
#17. Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#19. The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
Marianne Williamson
#20. Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
Orison Swett Marden
#21. I smile. "Mr. Perfect Beautiful Hockey God?"
"Oh, shut up. You know it's true," she replies in a flat tone. "You should be the face of the NHL. They should put you on billboards in Times Square. You're hot and your charm levels are through the roof.
Victoria Denault
#22. Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
Noah Webster
#23. I've got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Maya Angelou
#24. Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They're my favorite.'
I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.'
'Still not good enough.'
'Give me the damn M&Ms,'I snapped.
He snickered. 'That wasn't very charming.
Kaitlin Bevis
#25. There is no urge to touch, to kiss, to embrace. But I do it just the same. It is our last charm. Love isn't a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Richard Ford
#26. he smiled easily, drawing out a blush from Jaidyn. Yeah, Julieta figured he had that effect on most women. He was all boyish charm but with an edge that was hard to ignore.
Katie Reus
#27. Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes
without the pesky morality.
Daniel H. Wilson
#28. (Matt & Julian)
"Are you always like this?" Matt asked.
"It's the heat. Brings out my charm.
Jaime Reese
#29. MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Women made civilisation impossible with all their "charm " all their silliness.
Virginia Woolf
#31. 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.
Mark Twain
#32. Varvara was a girl of some twenty-three summers, of middle height, thin, but possessing a face which, without being actually beautiful, had the rare quality of charm, and might fascinate even to the extent of passionate regard.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#33. You're bubbly and approachable.".... "I'm none of those things. The sarcastic wit and humorous charm is a front. I honestly despise people. I like to consider myself as more of a dictator that staff are confident in but scared to approach.
Eden Summers
#34. Shit, I could jerk you up from there, pop you like a whip. Pop you so hard your snatch will snap off and smack the wall."
"So," Vanilla said. "How was charm school?
Joe R. Lansdale
#35. The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
Honore De Balzac
#36. Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court.
Luke Taylor
#37. I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces ... or my brothers ... in the audience. It comforts me.
Shreya Ghoshal
#38. All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
Dorothy Osborne
#39. The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!
Diablo Cody
#40. Beauty has its magic and charm. It touches our heart and rings the alarm.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
Alfred Lunt
#42. As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality
Walter Isaacson
#43. But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams.
Heinrich Heine
#44. To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
Olga Kurylenko
#45. Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.
Karen Blixen
#46. This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.
Ken Ludwig
#47. Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
Khalil Gibran
#48. Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully
Kate Spade
#49. And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.
Ian Rankin
#50. You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#51. Icarus."
"Hmm?"
"I don't have a hidden agenda. Nor do I intend to use you or mislead you with my charm."
Despite herself, she smiled, glancing at him. His face was studiously neutral.
"The day you act charming, I'll know something is wrong.
Dru Pagliassotti
#52. It was an unpleasant scene; the twins had evidently been trying to smuggle as many toffees out of the house as possible, and it was only by using her Summoning Charm that Mrs. Weasley managed to find them all.
J.K. Rowling
#53. Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.
Hermann Hankel
#54. The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.
Marc Fitten
#56. I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his
Carrie Fisher
#57. His parents were tiny people and knew how to dance. Scotty danced, too, with a variety of women, I'm sure, though I never acknowledged this to myself until years later. He knew charm.
Vicki Covington
#58. It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn
#60. I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm.
Amy Sedaris
#61. If you added it up, without her there was nothing
but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.
(from the novella, Revenge)
Jim Harrison
#63. Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Charles Baudelaire
#64. She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#65. God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#66. In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
Nancy Gibbs
#67. The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.
Colleen Moore
#68. I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm.
My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.
Ann Aguirre
#69. I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.
Cassandra Clare
#71. He hooked the charm into place. "Only this star matters." His thumb brushing over her inner wrist. "Should it be erased, no other has the right to live.
Nalini Singh
#73. He's an indulgent sort of man ... ...
With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.
Coco J. Ginger
#74. Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
Bruce Paltrow
#75. In those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
as you see, it has not left me yet.
Love brought us to one death.
Dante Alighieri
#79. He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
John Fowles
#80. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Oliver Goldsmith
#82. What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?
Geetha TG
#84. It doesn't matter, the important thing is to fall asleep caressing the charm of an image. Because the last thing you think of before falling asleep must always be the most beautiful.
Filippo Bologna
#85. It was unnecessary, but she had to say it. She had to know she said it, a charm that would protect him. It had to. Terak, be careful.
Danielle Monsch
#86. Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#87. 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.
Jim Ramstad
#88. 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.
W. Somerset Maugham
#89. Is she sane?' asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. 'I'll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.
Emily Bronte
#90. There was good in him. Raw, molten goodness, bubbling deep in his core. But he didn't possess the charm or manners to control it. It just erupted periodically in volcano fashion, startling anyone who happened to be nearby.
Tessa Dare
#91. Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
M.A.Kelty
#92. The Sewing Machine Charm
To A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together
Viola Shipman
#93. The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane Austen
#94. I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
Philippa Gregory
#95. She was gifted at charm. I never valued that in her before, but I felt like kissing her hand now. I should write to Eric and thank him for being a self-centered idiot.
Kristan Higgins
#96. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
#97. Music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
William Shakespeare
#98. The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
Evelyn Waugh
#99. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
Margaret Mitchell
#100. Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams
