Charm Quotes - Page 14

• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

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• The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

  Russell Baker

  Bridges, Television, Dinner

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

  Robert Breault

  People, Like You, Charisma

  "10 Habits Of Super Likeable Leaders" by Dr. Travis Bradberry, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2017.

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• Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.

  Robert Breault

  Saying Hello, Just Saying, Dropping

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• Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

  Seneca the Younger

  Moments, Pleasure, Dies

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• So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Chance, Daily Life, Whimsical

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• City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

  Mason Cooley

  Country, Cities, People

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• No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

  Lucy Larcom

  Doors, Solitude, Employment

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.8

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• The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

  Evelyn Waugh

  People, Opinion, Argument

  Evelyn Waugh, Michael Davie (1976). “The diaries of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Moving, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Hands, Voice

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Country, Cheapness

  Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”

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• The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Imagination, Towns, Visitors

  Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”

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• You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Voice, Sound, Looks

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• It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Accomplishment, Age, Maintaining

  Yehudi Menuhin (1978). “Unfinished journey”

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• Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.

  Israel Shenker

  Vocabulary, Quality, Syntax

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• The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Dedication, Humanity, Selfless

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 5”, p.124, M A Center

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• Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Teacher, Teaching, College

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• Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Winning, Want

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Boys, Giving

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• The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

  Yukio Mishima

  Giving, Forever, Mind

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• 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

  Mom, School, Ideas

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• There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Character, Play, Way

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!

  Erica Durance

  "Erica Durance: The 'Smallville' Death Will Break Your Heart". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 23, 2009.

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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