O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
~By William Cowper ~
He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
~By Louise Jameson ~
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
~By Judith Martin ~
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
~By Jean Paul ~
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
~By Jimmy Connors ~
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
~By Mason Cooley ~
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
~By William Harvey ~
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
~By Loretta Young ~
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
~By Gracie Allen ~
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
~By E. M. Forster ~
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
~By Marcel Proust ~
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
~By Hannah Cowley ~
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
~By Jane Austen ~
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
~By Jerome Robbins ~
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~By Alexander Pope ~
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
~By Anna Held ~
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
~By John Erskine ~
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
~By Oliver Herford ~
Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
~By Stendhal ~
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?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
~By Albert Camus ~
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.
~By Guglielmo Marconi ~
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
~By John Clare ~
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
~By Matthew Perry ~
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.
~By Jason Dohring ~
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
~By Anatole France ~
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.
~By Christopher Walken ~
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
~By Steve Waugh ~
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
~By James McAvoy ~
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
~By Akhenaton ~
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.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~By Edgar Saltus ~
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
~By Oliver Herford ~
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
~By Germaine Greer ~
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.
~By George Dzundza ~
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
~By Helen Rowland ~
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
~By Alma Gluck ~
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
~By William Congreve ~
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
~By Tacitus ~
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
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.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
~By John Mason Brown ~
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
~By Anita Brookner ~
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
~By Ray Liotta ~
I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~By Henry Ellis ~
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
~By Henry James ~
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
~By Christopher Durang ~
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
~By Ann Robinson ~
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
~By Cleo Moore ~
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
~By William Collins ~
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
~By Plato ~
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
~By Bruce Paltrow ~
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
~By John Buchan ~
It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
~By James Caan ~
The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.
~By Craig McCracken ~
Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
~By Michael Jackson ~
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