Charming Quotes - Page 18

• Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

  Thomas Sprat

  Forever, Wickedness, Goodness

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• I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Country, People, May

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Trouble, Charm

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• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

  Martha Gellhorn

  Believe, Farewell, Land

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dream, Real, Self

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• Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Commonplace

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• My curling personality really had the killer instinct, compared to the real me. I kind of liken it to when a surgeon is going into the operating room and has to put his game face on. But in real life, he might be a charming guy to have a beer with. Everybody always told me that I had Maurice Richard eyes when I competed; that the intensity that was on my face was scary. But that was what I needed to bring when I stepped on the ice. And even to this day, when I get on the rink, that person comes out pretty quickly. My brain and body know that I'm going into battle.

  Colleen Jones

  Real, Eye, Beer

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

  Alice Childress

  Prejudice, Ugly, Language

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• I do find it extraordinary that men are so prepared to pay for your dinner here. That simply never happens in England. When I first got together with Len, I couldn't understand why it seemed like he was always trying to get into my side of the car. He was holding the door open for me! I don't know what you teach American men in school here, but you have to keep it up, because it's extremely charming.

  Kate Beckinsale

  School, Men, Car

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.

  Ernie Chambers

  People, Peaceful, Kind

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

  Gertrude Bell

  Europe, Hopeless, Victim

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• Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

  Megan Fox

  Eight, Mouths, Offensive

  "Megan Fox Calls Her Power Over Men 'Supernatural'". Interview with Scott Huver, people.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishing. At the time, however, I just didn't feel I was enough: smart enough, savvy enough, well read enough, educated enough, charming enough. Much of this was probably because I was very naive, and didn't really know how to behave in an office. This made me a terrible assistant, which in turn made me a terrible junior book editor.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Smart, Book, People

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

  Margery Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

  Tessa Dare

  Character, Heart, Voice

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• It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Flower, Woods

  George Eliot (1901). “The Personal Edition of George Eliot's Works”

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• I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

  Stephan Pastis

  Running, Real, House

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• Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

  Margery Allingham

  Years, Ridiculous, Attractive

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

  John Landy

  Running, Personality, Good Company

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• 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'

  Russell Crowe

  Regret, Men, Oscars

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• I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

  John Milton

  Education, Path, Firsts

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.275

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• Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Gratitude, Art, Wall

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”

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• I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

  Jacques Pepin

  Daughter, Easter, Garden

  "Jacques Pépin is Not a Mallow Man". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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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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• And in their motions harmony divine
  So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
  Listens delighted.

  John Milton

  Music, Ears, Tone

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 620

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