quotations about charm
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Enemies of Promise
Charm is a matter of study. This easily mastered Course shows any ambitious woman how to awaken the slumbering magnetism within her and how to develop this irresistible power. You can be the woman you yearn to be--if you know what Charm is and how to attain it.
ANONYMOUS
American Cultural Society advertisement, The Drama Magazine, Feb. 1922
Funny how things that once seemed so charming can become dull and annoying. We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.
NICOLA YOON
The Sun Is Also a Star
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
JUDITH MARTIN
Common Courtesy
An object loses its charm soon after it is gotten.
ROMAN PROVERB
He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
JOHN FOWLES
The Magus
Oozing charm from every pore,
He oiled his way around the floor.
ALAN JAY LERNER
"You Did It", My Fair Lady
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
HENRY VAN DYKE
attributed, New Outlook, 1957
And you bring me your charms
In the cool of your soft little hands
In the heat of your legs and arms
You bring me your charms
THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS
"Charms"
Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
JOHN KEATS
Lamia
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
JOHN GREGORY
Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
Charm is captivating. Just as the petals of a flower unfold and open to the warmth and light of the sun, so do we unfold and open to the enchantment of charm. Charm acts as the Great Attractor, drawing us toward its magnetic source.
THOKOZA
attributed, The Power of Charm
We are all born charming, frank and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
JUDITH MARTIN
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
EDGAR SALTUS
The Pomps of Satan
You caution'd me against their charms,
But never gave me equal arms.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Cadenus and Vanessa
As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac
The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next -- though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!
GEORGETTE HEYER
Sylvester
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
And I was only trying to please
I never got any royalties oh no, not me
I'm still sliding through life on charm
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
"Sliding Through Life on Charm"
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
JOHN MASON BROWN
Vogue, Nov. 15, 1956