I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–49) American Novelist, Journalist
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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.
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British Sexologist, Physician, Social Reformer
Charm: It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
—Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American Writer, Artist, Illustrator
Charm is more than beauty.
—Yiddish Proverb
Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.
—Unknown
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
Novelty in all things is charming.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
The faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
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.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Irish Novelist, Short-story Writer
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
—Gore Vidal (1925–48) American Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Playwright
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
I am bewitched with the rogue’s company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
No one has it who isn’t capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn’t false.
—P. D. James (b.1920) British Novelist
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
—Anthony Trollope (1815–82) English Novelist
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist