Charming Quotes - Page 5

• Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

  Beth Broderick

  Bills, Clinton, Relentless

  "Oh No He Didn’t!" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2008.

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

  John Milton

  Angel, Voice, Ears

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.67

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

  Gabe Newell

  Men, Personality, Handsome

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.
  
  When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Connections, Needs

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• I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

  Debby Ryan

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  "Debby Ryan's Winter Fashion And Beauty Tips". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. November 8, 2012.

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dream, Believe, Acting

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Simple, Thinking

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night
  wipes them out.

  Samuel Beckett

  Winter, Night, Drawing

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.56, Grove Press

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• It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Art, Real, Science

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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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• No furniture is so charming as books.

  Sydney Smith

  Book, Reading, Furniture

  Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

  Ellen Bass

  Hope, Grief, Love You

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• He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to know how their conversation had gone. "Yeah. He was very generous about it all." "I think it's charming that he's a good winner." "He is a good winner. He's even gracious when he's gotten the raw end of things." Like a knee to the royal jewels, for example.

  Kiera Cass

  Thinking, Jewels, Talking

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• Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

  Ellen Bass

  Love You, Eye, Charming Smile

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• Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.

  Richelle Mead

  Hobbies, Meant To Be Alone

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• The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Fashion, Should Have

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• Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant.

  Rachel Caine

  Arrogant, Attractive, Irresistible

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.31, Allison & Busby

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• Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Alec flushed. "I think it's more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming." Jace glared at him. "Maybe not at the moment," Alec amended. "But you're usually charming. And faeries are very susceptible to charm." "Plus, if you stay here, I've got the whole first season of Gilligan's Island on DVD," Magnus said. "No one could turn that down," said Jace. He still wouldn't look at Clary.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Valentine, Son

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your ancestors fought in the Crusades and were often mentioned in despatches, and you cringe like a salted snail at the thought of appearing as Santa Claus before an audience of charming children who wouldn't hurt a fly. It's enough to make an aunt turn her face to the wall and give up the struggle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

  P. G. Wodehouse (1994). “The Theatre Omnibus”, Hutchinson Radius

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• Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Soul, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards (1843). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.21

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• I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

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