CHARM QUOTES

quotations about charm

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

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL

Journal intime, 1883


A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

ADLAI STEVENSON

The Stevenson Wit


Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Charm ... is the dead green bug on the golden leaf of occasion.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Parachutes in the Trees"


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

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall


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


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 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"


Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Condemned Playground


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


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


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


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

OSCAR WILDE

The Portrait of Mr. W.H.


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


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


There's nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

Back to Basics


O! speak that again.
Sweet as the syren's tongue those accents fall,
And charm me to my ruin.

THOMAS SOUTHERNE

The Loyal Brother