Charm Quotes - Page 7

• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

  Tacitus

  Secret, Forbidden

  "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Boys, Dust

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Genius, Modesty, Little Women

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Character, Men, Shining

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Nov 25, 2016

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• We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

  Judith Martin

  Positive, Society, Belief

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• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

  Pliny the Elder

  Marriage, Education, Goal

  "The Letters of Pliny the Younger". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.

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• Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Los Angeles, Forbidden

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

  Cory Arcangel

  Screw Ups, Way, Situation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

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• Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Opposites, Trying, Energy

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• Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Giving, Pleasure, Instinct

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

  Chris Hayes

  Evil, Screenwriting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!

  Brad Stine

  Country, Mean, Gun

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• I used to collect charms and bracelets.

  Natalie Grant

  Used, Bracelet

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• All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Feet, Slave

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• Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

  Susan Sontag

  Depression, Fit, Melancholy

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Wife, Found Love

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

  Hugh Nibley

  Discovery, Games, Forever

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

  Anna Godbersen

  Steel, Traps

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

  Marcel Proust

  Knowing, People, Sensual

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, p.369, Penguin UK

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

  Connie Brockway

  People, Asks

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• ...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.

  M.M. Kaye

  Life, Beautiful, Quality

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Home, I Can

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1365, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Happiness, Perfect, Maintenance

  Deborah Turbeville, Louis Auchincloss (1994). “Deborah Turbeville's Newport remembered: a photographic portrait of a gilded past”, ABRAMS

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