Charm Quotes - Page 9

• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  Rex Harrison

  Needs, Mystery, Charming

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Wife, Found Love

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

  Hugh Nibley

  Discovery, Games, Forever

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• Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

  Anna Godbersen

  Steel, Traps

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

  Marcel Proust

  Knowing, People, Sensual

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, p.369, Penguin UK

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• No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

  Arthur Keith

  Errors, Form, Latent

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• People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Age, Twenties

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Alive, Journalism

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• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Men, Relaxation, Use

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• Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.

  Connie Brockway

  People, Asks

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Would Be, Dean, Said

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• I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

  Madame Roland

  Sadness, Melancholy

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• Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

  Walter Scott

  Mystery, Womanhood

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• The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Brave, Good Man

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• A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

  James Joyce

  Pins, Loses

  1922 Ulysses.

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Genius, Might

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• The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!

  Dorothy Draper

  Home, Mirrors, Shining

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• Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

  Ovid

  Women, Thinking, Attractive

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

  Drake

  Father, Liars, Son

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

  Errol Flynn

  Night, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

  Brad Leithauser

  Peculiar, Bishops, Might

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• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Practice, Class

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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