(314 quotes found)
“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds”
John Milton
“gracious, friendly and charming.”
Jacques Chirac
“I tried a good-luck charm last year. I don't know if anybody knows how long a walk that is . . . that's a heck of a walk from Madison Square Garden. I'm not going to bring any good-luck charms with me. I'm just going to bring positive thinking.”
Larry Pleau
“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“The charmer, Maya, has worked her charms, and the multi colored thread is around everyone s neck.”
Guru Nanak
“Though there is a certain charm of going abroad, if better faculties are created in the country scientists would not mind coming back after a few years.”
Inder Verma
“In fiction, where so much of personality is revealed, the absence of charm is a great lack, ... and her critics, who have been, of course, mostly of the opposite sex, have resented, half consciously perhaps, her deficiency in a quality which is held to be supremely desirable in women. George Eliot was not charming; she was not strongly feminine; she had none of those eccentricities and inequalities of temper which give to so many artists the endearing simplicity of children.”
Virginia Woolf
“George Bush's charm offensive did work. It was aimed at governments and he did well at that level - that is important because foreign policy is decided by governments, not by public opinion. He did talk up the EU and they did shift slightly on Iran and the Middle East.”
Charles Grant
“We want to protect the charm and distinctive character of the city, especially in the historic downtown.”
Susan Blake
“`Not men but measures'; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.”
Edmund Burke
