#Charm Quotes

“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.”

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

“One had a lovely face,And two or three had charm,But charm and face were in vain.Because the mountain grassCannot keep the formWhere the mountain hare has lain.”

“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”

“Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.”

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

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“Always be a little unexpected.”

“The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.”

“A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.”

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

“There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.”

“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly”

“No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.”

“Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.”

“One should always be a little improbable.”

“I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.”

“If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.”

“Manners form the great charm of women.”

“There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.”

“There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.”

“Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”

“An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.”

“One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.”

“There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.”

“Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.”

“The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.”

“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.”

“Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.”

“I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.”

“Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.”

“Give up the tyranny of female charm.”