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• I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Memories, Solitude, Mistress

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• The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Art, Air, Rivers

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• Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

  Agnes Repplier

  People, Letters, Leisure

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• A woman is always ready to describe another woman as charming, but only if the other woman is not charming.

  Evan Esar

  Ready, Another Woman, Ifs

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• He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Nice, Believe, Views

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• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Loyalty, Attitude, Heart

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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• I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Divorce, Home, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Winning, Games, Littles

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• To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Editing, Ideas, Schedules

  "Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, Director Lasse Hallstrom, Author Nicholas Sparks, and Producer Marty Bowen Talk SAFE HAVEN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 11, 2013.

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• The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Persons

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• All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

  John Keats

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.91, Harvard University Press

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• Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vision, Privilege, Youth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.28

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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mother, Artist, Wife

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

  Brendan Gill

  Water, Gods And Goddesses, Shapes

  1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.

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• Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  Agnes Repplier

  Knowledge, Learning, Attractive

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Clever, Models, Fellows

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• A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

  Matt Ross

  Acting, Versions

  Source: collider.com

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• The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, Play

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

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• For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

  Pauline Kael

  Light, People, Strange

  Pauline Kael, Francis Davis (2002). “Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael”

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• In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

  Andy Warhol

  Clever, Thinking, Things In Life

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Illustration, Ideas

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.516, Courier Dover Publications

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• Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Anomalies, Shirts, Difficult

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.474, e-artnow

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• I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

  Jennifer Grant

  Stars, Children, Father

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.6, Knopf

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• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  Queen Victoria

  Powerful, Voice, Touching

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