Charm Quotes - Page 35

• Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

  Regina Maria Roche

  Seductive, Speech, Eloquence

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• Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Men, Feelings

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• The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

  Ethel Smyth

  Civilization, Convenience, Seclusion

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Sweet, Travel, Interesting

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• I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

  Louis Sachar

  Teacher, Children, Book

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• A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

  Richard Gregory

  Fashion, Imagination, Finest

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• Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Enemy, Conquer

  Khalil Gibran, “Peace XVIII”

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

  Rosita Forbes

  Desert, Subtle

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Flower, Garden, Space

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• Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave.

  Cyra McFadden

  Writing, Heart, Winning

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• To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

  Fanny Burney

  Loneliness, Heart, Solitude

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.528, Delphi Classics

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• Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Appreciation, Conversation, Companion

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• But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Too Much, Virtue, Good Sense

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

  William Bolitho

  Society, Culture, Littles

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• Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Offering, Favors

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• I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than peoples imaginations.

  Megan Fox

  Believe, Lucky Charms, Imagination

  "Megan Fox Saves Herself". Interview with Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Roots, Tree

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• The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Sorry, Together

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• Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

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• Music the fiercest grief can charm,
  And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
  And make despair and madness please;
  Our joys below it can improve,
  And antedate the bliss above.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Pain, Grief

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
  'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Half, Shows

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.217

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• And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

  Sarah Smiley

  Beautiful, Morning, Knowing

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• Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

  Susan Moody

  Golden, Watches, Rope

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company

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