Age, like distance lends a double charm.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
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
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
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
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, Satirist, Short Story Writer
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
—Oliver Herford (1860–1935) Canadian-American Writer, Illustrator
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Novelist
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
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 Essayist, Physician
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
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 charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Charm is stronger than beauty.
—Maltese Proverb
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, Satirist, Short Story Writer
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
—Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman
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
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile
The faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
—Martial (40–104) Ancient Roman Latin Poet
He had that nameless charm, WITH a strong magnetism, which can only be called “It.”
—Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) English Novelist, Short-Story Writer
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
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
Novelty in all things is charming.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Charm is more than beauty.
—Yiddish Proverb
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
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
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
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
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