Quotes About Charming People

#1. One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

Kenneth Clark

#2. Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

Anita Roddick

#3. I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Oscar Wilde

#4. For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

Pauline Kael

#5. All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly

#6. I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a ... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

Lena Headey

#7. My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.

Lily Collins

#8. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

#9. The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time, odd.

Marcel Proust

#10. There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

Amanda Eliasch

#11. I think women should be more independent. In society, we're portrayed as people who simply wear make-up and sit around. We need a Princess Charming - a woman who rescues her man and slays the dragon instead of the other way round.

Adora Svitak

#12. Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

Jeff Lindsay

#13. Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Ada Leverson

#15. Ms. Craft, while I'm sure your charming personality endears you to many people, is there anyone you know who would want to kill you?

Kalayna Price

#16. My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming - one

Jane Austen

#17. There is, if you don't mind my saying so, something sinister about men who avoid wine, games, the company of charming women, and good dinner-table conversation. People like that are either seriously ill or they secretly disdain their fellow men.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#18. People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

Sandra Brown

#19. A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Terry Crews

#20. I think people can be very nice and charming without being decent human beings.

Claire Hennessy

#21. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If

Oscar Wilde

#22. Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

Max Hastings

#23. People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.

Scottie Fitzgerald Smith

#24. I see time away hasn't made you any more charming. (Fang)
Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. ... if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.

Louisa May Alcott

#27. He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city - we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

Elizabeth Edwards

#28. People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

Jared Kushner

#29. Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do!
Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?

Tennessee Williams

#30. Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Agnes Repplier

#31. They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.

Ransom Riggs

#32. He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

Stephen King

#33. Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

Cyril Connolly

#34. He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people.

Susan Mallery

#35. I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

Sarah Dessen

#36. People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.

Josh Dallas

#37. When people say you're charming you're in deep trouble.

Jamaica Kincaid

#38. People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Bill Cosby

#39. He'd wanted us to be more like boys, and now we were. You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.

Margaret Atwood

#40. I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

Zooey Deschanel

#41. A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself. A lot of what happens in the industry is that you are cast based on other things that people have seen you do, or how you are perceived to look or sound. If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys.

Matt Ross

#42. A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.

Christian Louboutin

#43. Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans.

Daniela Bobadilla

#44. She still smiles from time to time, definitely a charming smile, but it's always limited somehow, a smile that never goes beyond the moment. A high, invisible wall surrounds her, holding people at arm's length.

Haruki Murakami

#45. I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#46. Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

Laura Wade

#47. I know what other people think about me," Rusty told her. " 'That Rusty,' they say. 'Charming and handsome,' they say first, of course - they're not blind. Then they add, 'All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.'

Sarah Rees Brennan

#48. It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

Josh Dallas

#49. All charming people are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Oscar Wilde

#50. I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.

Maria Bamford

#51. When people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

Jamaica Kincaid

#52. Some people just don't find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.

Charlotte Fallowfield

#53. Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

Robert Dallek

#54. Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Jay-Z

#55. If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

Ai Weiwei

#56. They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect.

Dianna Hardy

#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. Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens

Walter Scott

#59. I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Steven Brust

#60. My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

Michael Carbonaro

#61. I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.

Lili Simmons

#62. Ultimately, what we're looking for is someone who's enough of a morally flexible gasbag to get over with the money people, and then also charming enough on some politically irrelevant level to attract voters. (

Matt Taibbi

#63. White people can be so unself-conscious. It's offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.

Barbara Browning

#64. In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

Andy Warhol

#65. I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#66. It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

#67. If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

Oscar Wilde

#68. The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

Jodi Picoult

#69. Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#70. Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

Judith Martin

#71. In the long run, people will not remember you for your appearance but for your kind attitude towards others. Remember, being beautiful will make you look charming temporarily but it's pure soul that has the ability to win others' hearts forever.

Melinda Smart

#72. Adrian said, "You sure know how to win friends and influence people." "That's why they call me Raylene. It's Greek for 'charming.' " "You're so full of shit," he observed.

Cherie Priest

#73. When you're as charming and physically attractive as myself, it's easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you ... now, that's the trick.

John Green

#74. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

#75. It's a great feeling to connect with someone as charming as you.

Avijeet Das

#76. Let us be grateful
to people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom.

Marcel Proust

#77. You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

Janet Weiss

#78. French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.

Valentino Garavani

#79. Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man!

Maureen Johnson

#80. 'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

Harrison Ford

#81. I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

Jennifer Aniston

#82. VICOMTE DE NANJAC. And you are younger and more C
beautiful than ever. How do you manage it?
MRS. CHEVELEY. By making it a rule only to talk to per- Y
fectly charming people like yourself.

Oscar Wilde

#83. While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people and strangers; it is too risky and inhuman; also the consequences are often painful in a fairly charming way.

J.D. Salinger

#84. There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

Taryn Manning

#85. I'm a tooth person ... I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It's very charming.

Malin Akerman

#86. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

Chuck Palahniuk

#87. Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels.

Hugh Laurie

#88. In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.

Robert Emms

#89. Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting.

George Galloway

#90. They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in. All I had to do was write a character that was like my mom, and it made my life easier.

Dan Fogelman

#91. My being charming ... is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

Jane Austen

#92. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.

Tucker Carlson

#93. Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

Paul Arden

#94. I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love.

Robert Plant