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 ~
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 ~
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
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 ~
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 ~
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
~By Henry James ~
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
~By Albert Camus ~
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
~By Oliver Herford ~
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 ~
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
~By Saffron Burrows ~
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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 ~
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 think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
~By Patti Page ~
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
A charming woman is a busy woman.
~By Loretta Young ~
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
~By Tacitus ~
I bear a charmed life.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
~By William Congreve ~
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 ~
The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
~By James Theodore Bent ~
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
~By Washington Irving ~
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 ~
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
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 ~
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 ~
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.
~By Rosser Reeves ~
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 ~
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
~By Jane Austen ~
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
~By Jean Paul ~
I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
~By Placido Domingo ~
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 ~
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.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
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 ~
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 ~
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
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 ~
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
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 ~
'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 ~
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
~By Helen Rowland ~
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
~By Carl Reiner ~
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
~By George Farquhar ~
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~By Martin Luther ~
It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
~By James Caan ~
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
~By Thomas Mann ~
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
~By Judith Martin ~
Power without abuse loses its charm.
~By Paul Valery ~
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 ~
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~By Edgar Saltus ~
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
~By Stendhal ~
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
~By James Norman Hall ~
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 ~
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
~By Anna Seward ~
It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
~By Shimon Peres ~
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
~By Charles Perrault ~
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
~By Anita Brookner ~
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 ~
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
~By Kathleen Winsor ~
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 ~
The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.
~By William Banting ~
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
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 ~
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
~By Ivor Novello ~
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
~By William H. Macy ~
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
~By Ray Liotta ~
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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 ~
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
~By Aaron Spelling ~
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 ~
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.
~By Boris Vallejo ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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 ~
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 ~
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