Quotes about charm

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

— Anita Brookner

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

— John Mason Brown

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

— Albert Camus

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

— Cyril Connolly

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

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

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

— Samuel Johnson

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

— Jose Marti

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.

— Marcus Valerius Martial

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

— Marcel Proust

Charm is more than beauty.

— Yiddish Proverb

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

— Edgar Saltus

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

— Sir Walter Scott

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

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.

— Source Unknown

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

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

— Oscar Wilde

It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

— Oscar Wilde