Charm Quotes
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A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Edgar Saltus
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No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
William Cowper
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
Oscar Wilde
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He said his friend Victor called it a lucky charm, and that it kept him safe in Iraq." She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's. "Did you say Victor called it a lucky charm?" "Uh-huh." Ben nodded. "That's what he said." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." Beth stared at her son, feeling at war with herself.
Nicholas Sparks
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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
William Butler Yeats
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
H. L. Mencken
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What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!
Wilder Penfield
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Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?
Nalini Singh
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
William Cowper
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
Russell Baker
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The vastness and deadly desolation of the field, the long-distance operation of steel machines, and the relay of every movement in the night drew an unyielding Titan’s mask over the proceedings. You moved toward death without seeing it; you were hit without knowing where the shot came from. Long since had the precision shooting of the trained marksman, the direct fire of guns, and with it the charm of the duel, given way to the concentrated fire of mechanized weapons. The outcome was a game of numbers: Whoever could cover a certain number of square meters with the greater mass of artillery fire, won.
Ernst Junger
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
Seneca the Younger
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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead
William Collins
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When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!
Brad Stine
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
Sandra Bullock
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I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.
Simon Baker
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There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
Boman Irani
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Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
Nicholas Haslam
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.
Clark Ashton Smith