Charm Quotes - Page 40

• When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”

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• A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Honesty, Mind, Ornaments

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• Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Lying, Grief, Thinking

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Travel, Adventure, Soul Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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• I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Spring, Flower

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• I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

  Rebecca Mader

  Mean, Hair, Lucky Charms

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

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• How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Names, Silence

  Estwick EVANS (1819). “A Pedestrian Tour of four thousand miles throught the Western States and Territories during the winter and spring of 1818. Interspersed with Reflections”, p.102

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• Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

  Fergus Henderson

  Winning, Enjoy, Soothing

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• The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

  Jason Mraz

  Mad, Scientist, Let Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I think it's awesome. You know it's fake, but with my generation that was part of the charm.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fun, Old School, Thinking

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

  Jeff Bridges

  Lucky Charms, Superstitions, Granted

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• Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Peace, Kings

  Charles Wesley, J. Alan Kay (1957). “Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley”

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• I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm.

  Amy Sedaris

  Thinking, Important, Unattractive

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with elfin speed,the fragment philter witch i need; make it sweet and swift and stong, spirite amserw now my song hither i come, from my airy home, afar silver moon. take magic spell, and use it well. or its powers will vanish soon!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Song, Sweet, Home

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• As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Night, Genius, Fool

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.141, Booklassic

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• There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Delight, Development

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Healing, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Mean, Used, Ends

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4511, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Powerful, Opiates, Ecstasy

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• When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Fashion, Forget

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

  Frederick Exley

  Men, Drunk, Sobriety

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Class, Quality, Second Place

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• Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love You, Elephants, Ivory

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• Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Winning, Games, What If

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• I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my life. I'd be dead without you. And you're so good to me. And you love me too. How lucky is that? Amazing! Amazingly lucky. I can't live without you. You're my lucky charm." She felt a sudden desire to kill Justin's well-meaning friend.

  Meg Rosoff

  Love You, Lucky Charms, Mad

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