Quotes About Charm

Do you know why I dislike men like you, Venture?" "My insufferable charm and wit?" Elend asked. "I doubt it's my good looks – but, compared to that of an obligator, I suppose even my face could be enviable." Yomen's expression darkened. "How did a man like you ever end up at a table of negotiation?" "I was trained by a surly Mistborn, a sarcastic Terrisman, and a group of disrespectful thieves.

Not that there's anything wrong with humans. I find their frail, emotionally unstable, irrational natures quite endearing.

Do you know why I dislike men like you, Venture?" Yomen finally asked. "My insufferable charm and wit?" Elend asked. "I doubt it's my good looks - but, compared to that of an obligator, I suppose even my face could be enviable.

Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.

Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.

Just as a beautiful woman demanded attention by virtue of her face and figure, Breeze drew it by near unconscious use of his powers.

I remember asking her to tell me the secret of her charm and her growing success. As usual, she laughed. Nobody knows me. I never say what I think or what I'm planning to do. But I let everyone know that I have high expectations. I don't have to settle for less than the best. That way my value goes up, into the clouds!

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love.

Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.

her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness—that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.

His physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded or not, according to the charm you found in a blue eye of remarkable fixedness and a jaw of somewhat angular mold, which is supposed to bespeak resolution.

It's her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me. Who is this rare creature, and what is she? Where did you find her, and how did you make her acquaintance?

SHE COULDN'T have said what it was, in the conditions, that renewed the whole solemnity, but by the end of twenty minutes a kind of wistful hush had fallen upon them, as before something poignant in which her visitor also participated. That was nothing verily but the perfection of the charm—or nothing rather but their excluded disinherited state in the presence of it. The

The old-world quality in everything that she now saw had all the charm of strangeness.

Pearls have such a magic that they suit every one.' 'They would uncommonly suit you,' he frankly returned. 'Oh yes, I see myself!

The stale September days, in the huge half-empty town, had a charm wrapped in them as a coloured gem might be wrapped in a dusty cloth.

more charming than that over there, you know!"  She made me very welcome, but her son had told her about the Patagonia, for which she was sorry, as this would mean a longer voyage.  She was a poor creature in any boat and mainly confined to her

She's beautiful, but I don't say she's easy to know. Ah, she's a thousand and one things!

The Brighton air used of old to make plain girls pretty and pretty girls prettier still - I don't know whether it works the spell now. (Sir Edmund Orme)

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...