Charming Quotes
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When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a string of stories. And if it's told well enough and in a way that's charming and warm and with wit and humor, then it takes a bit of the edge off of it. You can still tell the truth, but if you tell it very sweetly and very warmly, it makes it go down a bit easier.
Kadir Nelson -
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.
Lewis Carroll -
After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
Mohamed El-Erian -
But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
Charles Dickens -
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.
Rich Cohen
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
John Milton -
Oh, I loved John Wayne. He was just so charming and easy to work with.
Judy Geeson -
My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
Michael Carbonaro -
We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
William Penn -
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch -
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
Melissa Joan Hart
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Donald Trump is the kind of guy that wants you to like him. He wants to be the centre of attention. A TV reporter is somebody who gives him a very grand stage, and I was the first national television correspondent following his campaign. So he wanted to charm me - and when he couldn't do that, he attacked. And it's the same thing he does every day with senators; he'll be charming with them and the next day he will go out and attack them on Twitter and if they don't fall in line. He toggles back and forth between these two aspects of his personality.
Katy Tur -
If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.
Geoffrey Miller -
'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.
Harrison Ford -
Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.
Gertrude Bell -
Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.
Eve Babitz
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Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.
Evan Osnos -
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust -
I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist?" Jamie asked. No," Nick replied honestly. I cannot tell you how much that surprises me," Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
William Bolitho