Quotes About Charm

Her beauty was not like that of a bonsai, which achieves its charm by asserting its own will in defiance of the careful bindings that lash and restrict it. How, I wondered, would my grandfather describe Mitsuru's beauty?

Beautiful is dangerous.

We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

He had even convinced a girl to splat with him once, just so he could say, "Girls fall for me—literally.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

I walk over and fill her drink: "you got class, doll, you're not like the others…" she likes that and I like it too because to make a thing true all you've got to do is believe.

the strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful.         one

After all, anyone can love people who are lovely.

any schmoozer can light a candle.

I loved Jake Gyllenhaal. He's the most beautiful thing ever.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.

Put your other goddamned sock on, she said. Instead, he took the first sock off. They stared at each other. It was so spectacularly absurd. She could feel the corner of her mouth twitching; she was close to laughing. Rory had used to do the same sort of thing; she'd spent a decade of her life being mollified by simple existential charm.

Just don't lose the magic.

There was a siren-song magic about their music

Wally! Isn't he wonderful?

Would a time ever come when I didn't feel I was dazzled by something incredibly wonderful every time I set eyes on him.

Ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness (living in the moment), and action. Who wouldn't, at certain points in their lives, benefit from kicking one or two of them up a notch? What was important was being able to turn them back down.

Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers--a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others--are also shared by politicians and world leaders.

Their analysis revealed that a number of psychopathic attributes were actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals--attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus--and the main difference between the groups was in the more "antisocial" aspects of the syndrome: the criminals' lawbreaking, physical aggression, and impulsivity dials were cranked up higher.

What's the point of having money if you can't use it to make people like you?

By Tink's diaphram...!

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.