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• Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Mistake, Perfection, Littles

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• Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.

  Nathan Fillion

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

  Iain Sinclair

  Business, Games, Play

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• I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

  Errol Flynn

  Night, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

  Drake

  Father, Liars, Son

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Women, Decrease

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.272, Modern Library

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• A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Women, Fifty, Illusion

  Tennessee Williams (1947). “A streetcar named Desire”, Signet Book

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• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Practice, Class

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

  Brad Leithauser

  Peculiar, Bishops, Might

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• I believe absence is a great element of charm.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Elements, Absence

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• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Relief, Littles

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• The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

  Ouida

  Art, Thinking, People

  Ouida (1881). “Friendship, a Story”

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• It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

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• What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Feelings, Certainty

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Verses, Wooing

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• The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

  Freya Stark

  People, Arabia, Levels

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

  Joseph Joubert

  Criticism, Should, Amenities

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Charming, Charmed

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.47, tredition

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• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

  Lucille Kallen

  Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

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• Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

  Merrill Markoe

  Real, Men, Want

  Merrill Markoe (1994). “How to be Hap-hap-happy Like Me”, Viking Press

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