Charm Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Accomplishment, Grace

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• To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

  Hermann Goring

  Suicide, War, Men

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• 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

  Exercise, Sacrifice, People

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fiction, Autobiography, Absorbing

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.415, Knopf

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• The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Talking, Hiking

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• Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Careers, Energy

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• It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Hate, Love Or Hate

  "Professor Bernhardi: A Comedy".

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• Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm

  Brian Masters

  Evil

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• Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Attachment, Divine, Mundane

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.10, Arktos

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• The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Grace

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

  Tom Hanks

  New York, Fall, School

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• In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Editors, Austria

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7777, Delphi Classics

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Journey

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

  Christopher Walken

  Believe, Lucky Charms, Lucky

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• 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

  Snapshots, Photographer, Strawberries

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• Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Deception, Invention

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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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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• a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

  Michael Cunningham

  Witch, Bohemian, Certain

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• Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

  Octave Feuillet

  Kindness, Hair, White

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• Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.

  Noel Coward

  Laughing, Theatre, Cry

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.73, A&C Black

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• A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate millions... Of all targets New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Bridges

  "Here Is New York". Book by E. B. White, 1948.

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
  none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Character, Men, Sailing

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