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• The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

  Anatole France

  Life, Sweet, Literature

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

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• There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

  Patrick MacGill

  Sweet, Wine, Journey

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

  Class, Evolution, Died

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• I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

  Harold Pinter

  Unique, Men, Thinking

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• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  Radha Mitchell

  Character, Scary, Mind

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• Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Country, Garden, Air

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

  Ray Liotta

  Guy, Bad Guys

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• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

  Mark Rydell

  Fun, Ideas, Needs

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• Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

  Lillie Langtry

  Sympathy, Pain, Doe

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• I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Next Day, Hiking

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

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• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  Beatrice Wood

  Mother, Unhappy, Generous

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• Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.

  Derek Jacobi

  Sexy, Unique, Knowing

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• I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Criticism, Daisies

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.9, Atlântico Press

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

  Wesley Snipes

  Handsome, Beautiful People, Figures

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• All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

  Cyril Connolly

  Appreciation, People, Ego

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 16

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• "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Friendship, Teacher, Cute Best Friend

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• Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, World, Behave

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Morning, Drinking, Self

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• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Life, Fall

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.132, Penguin

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• We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

  William Penn

  Shining, Soul, Doe

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• I suppose this is for the best," Blay said into his shoulder. "You can't cook." "See? I'm so not Prince Charming.

  J.R. Ward

  Said, Shoulders, Cooks

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.309, Penguin

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• Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

  Henry James

  Money, Literature

  1881 Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

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• A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Beauty, Reality

  "The Stevenson Wit" edited by Bill Adler, 1965.

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