(314 quotes found)
“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 Barrett Browning
“Forbidden things have a secret charm”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.”
Oscar Wilde
“When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?”
Oliver Goldsmith
“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty”
Gregory I
“Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.”
John Mason Brown
“Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm”
Jean Paul Richter
“"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
Havelock Ellis
“One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.”
Anatole France
“Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
William Wordsworth
