Charm Quotes - Page 19

• Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

  Jason Roy

  Said

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• There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm.

  Moon Jong-up

  Thinking, Color, Dislike

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• Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
  All things, in short, to which belong
  The charm, the grace that Time
  makes strong,
  All these I prize, but (entre nous)
  Old friends are best!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Strong, Book, Wine

  Henry Austin Dobson, “To Richard Watson Gilder”

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• There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Unseen, Ordinary

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• It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

  Joseph Haydn

  Genius, Invention, Produce

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• There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

  Petrarch

  Years, Satisfaction, Sometimes

  "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters". Book edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 426, 1898.

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• We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Horse, Friendly, Care

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• My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.

  Mel Gibson

  Coffee, Thinking, Pigs

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• 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

  Doubt, Evening, Causes

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.245, Modern Library

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• Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Silly, Men

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (1992). “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

  Henri Matisse

  Photography, Artist, World

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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• I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.

  Roseanne Barr

  Crush, Cowboy, Thinking

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• The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.

  Charles Negre

  Real, Character, Giving

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• The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Spiritual, Sweet, Character

  Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

  Marlon Brando

  Quality, Wit, Offers

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• Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

  Wilder Penfield

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.

  Norm MacDonald

  Believe, Perfection, Grace

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• It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.

  Francis Galton

  Lakes, Views, Average

  Natural Inheritance The Charms of Statistics (p. 62)

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• Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.

  Marina Warner

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Lucky Charms, Mascots, Superstitious

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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

  People, Sound, Grew Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.

  A.J. Cronin

  Attractive, Realising

  "The Citadel". Book by A.J. Cronin, 1937.

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• Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Offending, People, Nerd

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

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