Charm Quotes - Page 6

• Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  P. D. James

  May, Superficial, Genuine

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.26, Vintage

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• The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Horror, Actualization

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

  Martial

  Love, Hands, Missing

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• Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

  John Keats

  War, Flower, Eye

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Three, Might, Chords

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.181

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• A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Beauty, Reality

  "The Stevenson Wit" edited by Bill Adler, 1965.

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• Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Add, Rivalry, Conquest

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.5102, Delphi Classics

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• Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

  John Milton

  Song, Soul, Mazes

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 555

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• Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Illusion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Doubt, Doubted

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI. 93, 1321.

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• Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

  Fannie Hurst

  Light, Giving, Radiation

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• If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

  Epictetus

  Mind, Principles, Down And

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.109, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Winning, Light, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.502

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• Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.

  Jean-Paul Belmondo

  Looks, Forget, Ability

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• Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fashion, Justice, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Trying, Answers, Way

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Brevity, Eloquence

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• Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mind, Novelty

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• It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

  Aristotle

  Men, Simplicity, Crowds

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Inspiration, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2507, Delphi Classics

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• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Eye, Winning

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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• Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

  Melvin Helitzer

  Men, Tonight, Talent

  Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books

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• Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Inspirational, Quality

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