quotations about charm
Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUT
Breakfast of Champions
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
ADLAI STEVENSON
The Stevenson Wit
Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL
Journal intime, 1883
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
attributed, Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Thrill, thrill me with your charms
Take me in your arms
And make my life perfection
DEAN MARTIN
"Kiss"
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without ever having asked a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Fall
When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm. The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
Charm ... is the dead green bug on the golden leaf of occasion.
DONALD BARTHELME
"Parachutes in the Trees"
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying.
JEFF LINDSAY
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Condemned Playground
Don't want a four leaf clover
Don't want an old horse shoe
Want your kiss 'cause I just can't miss
With a good luck charm like you
ELVIS PRESLEY
"Good Luck Charm"
Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.
KEITH FERAZZI
Never Eat Alone
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
OSCAR WILDE
The Portrait of Mr. W.H.
It's [charm] 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
What Every Woman Knows
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
TACITUS
attributed, Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
SARAH BERNHARDT
The Art of the Theatre
There's nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Back to Basics
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
"Other People", Afterthoughts
O! speak that again.
Sweet as the syren's tongue those accents fall,
And charm me to my ruin.
THOMAS SOUTHERNE
The Loyal Brother