Charming Quotes - Page 16

• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Philosophy

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Mean, Tennis, Bread

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• There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

  Beth Ditto

  Bitter, Shame, Poor

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

  Ai Yazawa

  Glasses, Shoes, Perfect

  "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.

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• Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

  Dorothy Draper

  Giving, House, Details

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• Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Math, Two, Giving

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• Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key Of all-conquering love and careless fortune They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight. The still moonlight, sad and beautiful, Which gives the birds to dream in the trees And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy, The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.

  Paul Verlaine

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.

  Gregory Peck

  Mother, Queens, Children

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• SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Character, Adventure, Quirky

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• So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!

  Natsuki Takaya

  Boys, Woods, Tents

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• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

  Duane Michals

  Flower, Eye, Circles

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• She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Sense Of Humor, Perfect Woman

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• And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Live Life, Important, Ambitious

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.

  Kate Bush

  Men, Evil, Like You

  Song: Heads We're Dancing, Album: The Sensual World, 1989

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• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Eye, Long Ago

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.

  Matthew Polly

  Believe, Blind Spots, Alcohol

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• The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Years, Practice

  Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, True Friend, Mean

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.346, Wordsworth Editions

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• I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

  Cynthia Hand

  Couple, Sitting, Pumpkin

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.139, Egmont UK

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• The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

  Esther Williams

  Dream, Husband, Father

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• I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

  Katy Perry

  Independent Women, Needs, Happy Girl

  "Katy Perry dismisses her relationship with Rob Ackroyd as 'not serious' (here's to hoping he already knew that)" by Rachael Wheeler, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2012.

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• So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

  George Carlin

  Airports, Innocence, Goofy

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

  Rumi

  Doors, Faithful, Finals

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• Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Islands, Simplicity, Aliens

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