Charm Quotes - Page 2

• Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Winning, Sight, Soul

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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• One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

  Anatole France

  Men, Giving, Mind

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

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

  Oliver Herford

  Art, Humility, Modesty

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• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  Oliver Herford

  Time, Distance, Age

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• Charm is a product of the unexpected.

  Jose Marti

  Unexpected, Products, Productions

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• After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

  Washington Irving

  Divinity, Talent, Has Beens

  Washington Irving, Pierre Munroe Irving “Irving's Works”

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• The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Years, America, Fake

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

  John Strachan

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

  Lynn Johnston

  Father, Character, Play

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

  Eliza Haywood

  Giving, Admiration, Stage

  Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

  Jimmy Connors

  Smile, Sunday, Nuts

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• The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

  Craig McCracken

  Moving, Mind, Trying

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 2, 2002.

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• O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.67

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• The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Deception

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

  Placido Domingo

  Color, Voice, Singing

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• I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

  Boris Vallejo

  Color, Oil, Quality

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• I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

  Patti Page

  Heart, Thinking, Singing

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. November 29, 2005.

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• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Sublime, Enchanting

  Letter to Sophie Germain, April 30, 1807.

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• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

  Victor Hugo

  Queens, Meter, Rhyme

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• This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Morning, Wake Up, World

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

  Shimon Peres

  Girl, Morning, Wife

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Beauty, Years, Bread

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• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Purity And Innocence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

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