Charm Quotes - Page 31

• It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

  Samuel Palmer

  White, Shadow, Etching

  "The Letters of Samuel Palmer". Book edited by Raymond Lister, Oxford, Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), 1974.

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• The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

  Anthony Trollope

  Opponents, Politician, Pleasure

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.230, 谷月社

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• We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Son, Blessing

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• Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

  Arthur Symons

  Flower, Perfect, Literature

  Arthur Symons (1958). “The symbolist movement in literature”

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• How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

  Margaret Drabble

  Vices, Unjust, Life Is

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

  William Whewell

  Failure, Errors, Trials

  William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton

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• Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!

  Harry Graham

  Saws

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• I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

  Eva LaRue

  Beach, New York, Cities

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• So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

  Gene Wolfe

  Powerful, Passion, Entity

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan

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• And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Lying, Rivers, Water

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1970). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Blue, Yellow, Shining

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• The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

  Ray Wise

  Games, Car, Style

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• I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.

  St. Vincent

  Stars, Alarms, Amulets

  Song: All My Stars Aligned, Album: Marry Me, 2007

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• Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

  Anacreon

  War, Lying, Wine

  Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.189

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• Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Humble, Men

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.

  Flora Thompson

  Butterfly, Thinking, Men

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.

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• I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Talking, Names, Two

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Interview with Cormorant, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

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• A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.

  Jennifer Dunning

  New York, Cynical, Fans

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• Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood.  As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.  Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe.  Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds.  Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Light, Civilization

  James Jackson Jarves (1855). “Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting”, p.10

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• Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Sock, Golf Course

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• All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.

  William Cowper Prime

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.187

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.

  David Cannadine

  Lonely, Believe, Self Worth

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• By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Children, Thinking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.126, Canongate Books

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• Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

  Anne Royall

  Common Sense, Atheism, Reason

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