Charm Quotes - Page 16

• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.

  George Horne

  Men, Civility, Temper

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• The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

  David Hume

  Heart, Passion, Poetry

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.453

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• Love has no charm
  when Love is swept to earth:
  you'd make a lop-winged god,
  frozen and contrite,
  of god up-darting,
  winged for passionate flight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Passionate, Frozen

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Real, Impossible, Has Beens

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• We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Music, Art, Mean

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

  Edmund H. North

  War, Personality, Battle

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• Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!

  Flora Tristan

  Men, Rights, Law

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• That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.

  Rosita Forbes

  Horizon, Maps, Sides

  Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Firsts, Looks

  Donald J. Cram (1990). “From Design to Discover :”, Amer Chemical Society

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• I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Years, Oxford

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• We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our Lord and whose affections are set on Heavenly things voluntarily and gladly lay aside the things that charm and ravish the world, that our hearts may be ravished with the things of Heaven; that our whole being may be poured forth in constant and unreserved devotion in the service of the Lord who died to save us.

  Amy Carmichael

  Heart, Heaven, Looks

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• Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Wise, Heart

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• I like slim style. It is good to catch up to the trend too, but not too much exposure. I like styles that would show their unique charms.

  Yesung

  Unique, Style, Trends

  Source: y3sung.tumblr.com

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• I like clothes that exude feminine charms, a gentle style. It's just like being able to match with a dress with an attached hood.

  Daesung

  Clothes, Style, Dresses

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.

  Joanna Page

  Girl, Gorgeous, Late

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Heart

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• Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

  William Congreve

  Inspiration, Savages, Breasts

  "The Mourning Bride". Book by William Congreve, 1697.

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• Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

  Pliny the Younger

  Generosity, Lovely, Form

  Pliny (the Younger.) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”

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• With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Our World, Sea

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• Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

  Voltaire

  Queens, Giving, Faces

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• No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

  Henry Taylor

  Listening Ear, Soul, Ears

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• I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Fall, Character

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• There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

  Alan King

  Soul, Saws, Firsts

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