Charm Quotes - Page 29

• Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Beautiful, Essence, Grace

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• You can't rob a bank on charm and personality.

  Willie Sutton

  Personality

  Willie Sutton, Edward Linn (2004). “Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

  Euripides

  Wise, Fellows, Worthless

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• To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

  Epictetus

  Character, Men, Lovers

  Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

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• Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

  Jackie French

  Song, Stars, Moon

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• I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

  Shan Sa

  Heart, Play, Desire

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• Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.

  Steve Carell

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found.

  Hermann Buhl

  Giving, Relentless, Destination

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• Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

  Tim Krabbe

  Wish, Use, Few Friends

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• I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Domestic Violence, Next Steps, Finals

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• To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ignorance, Self, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

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• My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

  Richard McKenna

  Book, Thinking, Rocks

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Giving, Water, Magic

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Aug 10, 2010

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• Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

  James E. Faust

  Strength, Love You, Creativity

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• Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Smart, Zeppelins, Detectives

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• There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

  Ken Jennings

  Wall, Our World, Looks

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• The charm of horror only tempts the strong

  Jean Lorrain

  Strong, Horror Genre, Horror

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• The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balance, Four, Persuasion

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• While snow the window-panes bedim,
  The fire curls up a sunny charm,
  Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim,
  The flowering ale is set to warm;
  Mirth, full of joy as summer bees,
  Sits there, its pleasures to impart,
  And children, 'tween their parent's knees,
  Sing scraps of carols o'er by heart.

  John Clare

  Summer, Children, Heart

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.482, Delphi Classics

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• There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Done, Too Much, December

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• Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
  Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
  Misguide thy opposers' swords!

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Deep Love, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.38

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• Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Originality, Fairness

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• ..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beautiful, Simple, Appreciate

  Ernest Holmes (2015). “Can We Talk to God?: Ebell Lectures”, p.41, Lulu Press, Inc

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