Quotes About Charms

#1. This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended ...

Freya Stark

#2. I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I seem to possess these charms.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Emily Dickinson

#4. Do not come here and roam here unless you are willing to be enslaved by its charms. Its beauty and peace and harmony will entrance you. Once it has you in its power, it will never release you the rest of your days

Gordon Wallace

#5. The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

Ellen G. White

#6. There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.

Marcel Proust

#7. Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.

Cyndi Goodgame

#8. Thus saying, I turned my full attention to the lock. Like a proper maiden, it resisted for a token moment. But, upon further adept agitation of its slender hole, it relinquished its charms with smooth, willing finesse.

Gabrielle Harbowy

#9. It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#10. The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

Celia Green

#11. It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries ...

Tod Papageorge

#12. They were only to glad to come, ... as an alibi to test their charms ... but once they'd made it into the house their hearts where in their boots because they knew enough to see that here Madame Verona was still living off the interest.

Dimitri Verhulst

#13. I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.

Seungri

#14. 181. (The) Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare 182. Two Sickles 183. Hats and Socks for the House Elves 184. Dumbledore's Army 185. A Fake Galleon 186. Confundus 187. Cormac McLaggen 188. Professor Slughorn's 189. Charms 190. Ron View the questions for this section

Chris Peacock

#15. I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Kami Garcia

#16. I fondle the last two charms: a letter C- oh yes, I was his first girlfriend to use his first name. I smile at the thought. And finally, there's a key.
"To my heart and soul," he whispers.

E.L. James

#17. Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

Christopher Walken

#19. On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.

Bob Dylan

#20. her nose was not handsome - it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure, - which drives painters to despair, and charms poets.

Victor Hugo

#21. Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Ovid

#22. Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

Edmund Waller

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Never neglect the charms of narrative for the human heart.

Robertson Davies

#25. On a slightly unconnected note, I am sorry to report that babies, as a collective species, are largely oblivious to my charms.

Amruta Patil

#26. Satan, you clown, you want to dissolve me with your charms. Well, I want it. I want it! Stab me with a pitchfork, sprinkle me with fire!

Arthur Rimbaud

#27. Was she terribly ravishing in her underclothes?" Livia asked craftily. "Yes," Marcus said without thinking, and then scowled. "I mean, no. That is, I didn't look at her long enough to make an assessment of her charms. If she has any.

Lisa Kleypas

#28. The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Hannah Cowley

#29. When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

Jean De La Bruyere

#30. New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Moliere

#31. Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

John Milton

#33. 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

#34. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

#35. Even the moon cannot escape your intoxicating charms...

Virginia Alison

#36. Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end.
How prettily Lorelei Lee sang these mordant lyrics!

Joyce Carol Oates

#37. Not long ago the world looked on the dark ages with contempt for its brutality, yet here it is again, in full force, a lawless sadism unpolished by all the charms of religion and civilization." Sitting

Diane Ackerman

#38. How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

Estwick Evans

#39. Oh, Stuart. You think you can do anything. It's one of your great charms, but it's also one of your most aggravating qualities when you think you can move unmovable mountains.

Judith Ivory

#40. 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

#41. I tapped the largest of the charms, a shark's tooth capped in silver. "It's never let me down yet." "How do you know?" Jasmine was smirking in an irritating fashion. "I'm not dead," I replied. Daryus

Amy Sanderson

#42. It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).

Marjorie Hillis

#43. Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Alberto Manguel

#44. I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#45. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.

Rudyard Kipling

#46. Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Thomas Gray

#47. To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#48. O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

William Cowper

#49. With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.

Rae Lori

#50. With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

Lord Byron

#51. The delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#52. There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

John Adams

#53. I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

George Crabbe

#54. Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Honore De Balzac

#55. In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton

#56. A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,

Ulysses S. Grant

#57. LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.

Aristophanes

#58. Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

Louisa May Alcott

#59. She charms by her eyes and slays with her tongue.

Jehanne Wake

#60. The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

Victoria Beckham

#61. I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Emmuska Orczy

#62. If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

Casey Neistat

#63. For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

Chang-rae Lee

#64. I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

Ryan O'Neal

#65. Her power is seen in the fact that the good news of Coca Cola is more widely proclaimed than the good news of Jesus Christ. Consumerism is making disciples in all nations through its seductive charms.

Iain M. Duguid

#66. Good-humor only teaches charms to last,
Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

Alexander Pope

#67. No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it is true, on the roads of memory, when we have left that hour far behind us, and so long as our soul is vast enough to disclose deep perspectives.

Marcel Proust

#68. Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision ...

Newell Dwight Hillis

#69. There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. These we would not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry.

Washington Irving

#70. I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.

Tracy Morgan

#71. The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

Mark Twain

#72. Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

Ian Frazier

#73. Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

Ovid

#74. For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Bayard Taylor

#76. A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

Euripides

#77. I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me."
I'm not hitting on you," he protested.
No?"
Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

Nicholas Sparks

#78. She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

Alexander Pope

#79. Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

#80. If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Epictetus

#81. [Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.

Katharine Hepburn

#82. Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#83. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

John Donne

#84. The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Marcel Proust

#85. Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

Tim Krabbe

#86. Did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne of beauty

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#87. Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

Penelope Hobhouse

#88. Mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.

Barbara Kingsolver

#89. I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

Saoirse Ronan

#90. Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.

Tyne O'Connell

#91. When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul
it's nothing but a common crocodile.

Anton Chekhov

#92. Lucky Charms?" I asked.
"Magically delicious," he explained. "Requisite for any sort of building project."
I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. "This isn't a date."
He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I'd bring Count Chocula for that.

Richelle Mead

#93. Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Susan Sontag

#94. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

William Cowper

#95. People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#96. Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.

J.K. Rowling

#97. In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

James Ellis

#98. Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms - such things do exist. They're called books.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#99. I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

Joel Barlow

#100. Christianity is not a religion that offers the solace of revenge to its adherents. For that you must go to the old women who know which herbs to pluck and what charms to say under a waning moon.

Bernard Cornwell