Charm Quotes
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde -
Myrnin: "I shall name him Bob, Bob the spider" Claire: "You're insane." Myrnin: "Why Claire, I thought that was part of my charm." (something like that)
Rachel Caine
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain -
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus -
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Oscar Wilde -
Is she such a mystery? She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. Moods don't last. It is their chief charm.
Oscar Wilde -
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper -
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.
Oswald Chambers
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Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.
Archimedes -
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
Emma Orczy -
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
William Shakespeare -
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
Brad Leithauser -
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.
Quentin Tarantino
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.
Christina Aguilera -
You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.
A.J. Cronin -
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. Forster -
Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
Padgett Powell -
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
Freya Stark -
I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
Madame Roland
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde -
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
Oscar Wilde -
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.
Rachel