Charm Quotes

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

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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  A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Funny, Humor, Men

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  There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Girly, Healing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.343, MobileReference

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• Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Thinking, Wonderful, Ability

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• Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Charming Smile, Asking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Beauty, Reality

  "The Stevenson Wit" edited by Bill Adler, 1965.

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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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• Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Winning, Sight, Soul

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Brevity, Eloquence

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  P. D. James

  May, Superficial, Genuine

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.26, Vintage

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• Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Doe

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Inspirational, Quality

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

  Christopher Walken

  Believe, Lucky Charms, Lucky

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• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Admiration, Made

  Samuel Johnson (1795). “The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism on Their Works. By Samuel Johnson”, p.85

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• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• 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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• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Eye, Winning

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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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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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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