Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
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
Charm is more than beauty.
—Yiddish Proverb
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
—Robert Brault
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
Novelty in all things is charming.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
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
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
—Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
—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
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
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
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
Charm is stronger than beauty.
—Maltese Proverb
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
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
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
—William Congreve (1670–1729) English Playwright, Poet
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Composer
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
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
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
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
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
—John Mason Brown (1900–69) American Columnist, Journalist, Author
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
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
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
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
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
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
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
He had that nameless charm, WITH a strong magnetism, which can only be called “It.”
—Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) English Novelist, Short-Story Writer
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
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 charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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
Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.
—Unknown