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 a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
—John Mason Brown (1900–69) American Columnist, Journalist, Author
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
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
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
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
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
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
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
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
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
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
—William Congreve (1670–1729) English Playwright, Poet
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher