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Quotes About Charm

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.
~ Helen Rowland
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
~ Helen Rowland
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
~ Helen Rowland
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
~ Henri Bergson
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.
~ Henri Lefebvre
Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Of all the girls that are so smart,There's none like pretty Sally.She is the darling of my heart,And she lives in our alley.
~ Henry Carey
Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to lay down your life, that simple charm, Love, and your life-work must succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is not worth while going if you take anything less.
~ Henry Drummond
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
~ Henry James
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
~ Henry Van Dyke
It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm of the face, the face is a beautiful one; if it does not alter it, the face is ordinary, and if it is spoilt by a smile, it is ugly.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort of new brilliance. That world of her own seemed quite new to her now so sweet and precious that she would not on any account spend an extra day outside it, and she made up her mind that she would certainly go back next day.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence. Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms. Woman well knows her influence there. You will see it in her triumphant smiles.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now she understood that Anna could not have been in lilac, and that her charm was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could never be noticeable on her. And her black dress, with its sumptuous lace, was not noticeable on her; it was only the frame, and all that was seen was she—simple, natural, elegant, and at the same time gay and eager.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen... All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In my opinion, it is in the smile of a face that the essence of what we call beauty lies. If the smile heightens the charm of the face, then the face is a beautiful one. If the smile does not alter the face, then the face is an ordinary one. But if the smile spoils the face, then the face is an ugly one indeed. Mamma
~ Leo Tolstoy
But whether because stupidity was just what was needed to run such a salon, or because those who were deceived found pleasure in the deception, at any rate it remained unexposed and Hélène Bezukhova's reputation d'une femme charmante et spirituelle2 became so firmly established that she could say the emptiest and stupidest things and yet everybody would go into raptures over every word of hers, and look for a profound meaning in it of which she herself had no conception.
~ Leo Tolstoy
On Richmond Hill there lives a lassMore bright than Mayday morn;Whose charms all other maids' surpass—A rose without a thorn.
~ Leonard MacNally
Despite the destructive nature of this personality profile, many narcissists have a history of appearing friendly and agreeable-at first. Only after people have ongoing exposure to the private world of a narcissist do they experience the pain such a person can cause.
~ Les Carter
With maaaaaaaaaagic!
~ Lev Grossman
It just shows--if I may say so--how blind Love is. If this had happened to anybody else, you would be the first to see, on the face of it, that anything like a flirtation between the Lady of the Velvet Case and your husband is one of those hopeless impossibilities that only the wildly imaginative and charming people who have no relation to real life, like yourself, could possibly conceive.
~ leverson ada ii
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
~ Walter Scott