Charm Quotes - Page 12

• Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Doe

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

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• To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

  Hermann Goring

  Suicide, War, Men

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Grace, Roles

  'Particularly Cats' (1967) ch. 9

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• There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Accomplishment, Grace

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• The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

  Jimmy McGill

  Mother, Mean, Two

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• My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

  Chris Cain

  Eye, Advice, Doe

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• There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

  Washington Irving

  Song, Remembrance, Pleasure

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• I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Exercise, Sacrifice, People

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Careers, Energy

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• Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fiction, Autobiography, Absorbing

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.415, Knopf

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• American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

  Stephen King

  British, Grammar

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Talking, Hiking

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• I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

  Dean Acheson

  Sex, Used, Found

  "Al Sharpton Goes Hollywood". www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2004.

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• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

  Christopher Walken

  Believe, Lucky Charms, Lucky

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• Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Deception, Invention

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

  Tod Papageorge

  Snapshots, Photographer, Strawberries

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• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Admiration, Made

  Samuel Johnson (1795). “The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism on Their Works. By Samuel Johnson”, p.85

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• a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

  Michael Cunningham

  Witch, Bohemian, Certain

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• Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

  Octave Feuillet

  Kindness, Hair, White

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• Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.

  Noel Coward

  Laughing, Theatre, Cry

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.73, A&C Black

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• A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate millions... Of all targets New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Bridges

  "Here Is New York". Book by E. B. White, 1948.

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

  Samuel Rogers

  Happiness, Ease, Hours

  Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.94

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