Charming Quotes - Page 15

• You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Fashion, Rest Of Your Life

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• It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving Up, Mistake, Men

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• Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Stupid, People, Mind

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.25, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You do know him, so that's a lame excuse." It was a lame excuse, but it was the best I had. "How do you really ever truly know someone?" Brit smacked her hands to her cheeks and she shook her head. "He's not a serial killer." "Speaking of serial killers, everyone thought Ted Bundy was a really charming, handsome man. And look how he turned out. Psycho." Jacob stared at me. "He's not Ted Bundy.

  J. Lynn

  Men, Hands, Ted Bundy

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• ..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Yesterday, People

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• You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Patriotic, Dragons, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

  Sylvia Day

  Powerful, Self, Shadow

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• I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

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• Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stupid, Charming Smile, Stranger

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Adrian Ivashkov: "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak." Rose Hathaway: "If by 'devastating' you mean that you should fear for your life, then yeah. You're right.

  Richelle Mead

  Tired, Mean, Clothes

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.38, Penguin

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• Maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager.

  David Nicholls

  War, Drinking, Sadness

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• It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

  Anne Lamott

  Grateful, Thinking, Light

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• My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Gossip, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.

  Michael Buckley

  Teacher, Fighting, Knights

  Buckley, Michael (2011). “The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two”, p.245, Abrams

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• I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

  Steven Brust

  People, Want

  Steven Brust (2011). “Tiassa”, p.128, Macmillan

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• Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.

  Jennifer Worth

  Know It All, Enough, Young

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• I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Sorrow, Ordinary

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

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• I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

  Derek Landy

  Suave, Sophisticated, Debonair

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• Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Knights, Shining, Needs

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• I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.

  Margaret Haddix

  Fun, Eye, Thinking

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sound, Catchy, Spilling

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

  Judith Martin

  People, Mouths, Villain

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

  Marian Keyes

  Night, Men, Hens

  Marian Keyes (2008). “This Charming Man”, p.42, Penguin UK

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• The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Charming Smile, Clothes

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