Charming Quotes - Page 15

• Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

  Mark Duplass

  Thinking, Humanity, Bills

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

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• Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Lying, Men

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• There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

  Moliere

  Love, Lying, Fall

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• According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

  Marcel Proust

  Ignorance, Law, Sophisticated

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• How charming is divine philosophy!
  Not harsh and crabb

  John Milton

  Philosophy, Divine, Harsh

  'Comus' (1637) l. 475

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• I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Hands, Voice

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Black, Neighbors And Friends, Innocence

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.81, Picador

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• My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Mother, Voice

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.6, Delacorte Press

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• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Speech, Eloquent

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• The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.

  Idris Elba

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "The god in Idris Elba" by Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  Martin Amis

  Home, Writing, Holiday

  "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.

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• I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Simplicity, Glad

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.514

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• I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

  Lena Headey

  People, Needs, Ensemble

  "Lena Headey Talks Sexy Vamps, Her New Flick and More". Interview with Stacie Ponder, www.amc.com. 2009.

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• I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.

  Ali Larter

  Writing, Phones, Calendars

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• The charming shall inherit the Earth.

  Simon Doonan

  Earth

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• The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wall, Ignorance, Writing

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Belief, Aphorism, Form

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• Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

  Moliere

  Air, Giving, Gold

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• Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Heroines

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Clever, Writing

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Skills, Church

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.210

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• Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simplicity, Quality, Enthusiasm

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

  Stephen Sondheim

  Clever, Thrones, Passionate

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1988). “Into the Woods”, Crown

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