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Quotes About Charm

I learned long ago that a good-looking man in the right suit with a winning smile can get what he wants. All it takes is the ability to tell a story.
~ Unknown
Mary, radiant, her charm turned to its brightest candle-power, is greeting the Blairs, who are part of a long receiving line.
~ Tony Kushner
Of course it [the robe] smelled -- that was part of its charm. Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been though; it is a sheath of memories and security.
~ Tove Jansson
Life is very charming, I must say.
~ Tove Jansson
You Cannot Escape Beauty And You Cannot Stop Being Attracted To It, Because Beauty Allures. Beauty Seduces. Beauty Wants You To Come Closer.
~ Unknown
He grinned at her again. He really needed to quit doing that. It was very distracting.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
you're a handsome idiot," she said affectionately. "And I'll tell you later.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Instead of trying to impress other dragons with opulence, they do it with mystery.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I know," he said, looking down his nose at the SandWing. "Obviously I figured that out. That's the only reason I'm agreeing to this." "Oh," Qibli said with a rakish grin. "I thought perhaps it was because I'm so charming and convincing.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There is something wonderfully comfortable about having a lady's legs under one's table, Aubrey.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.
~ Paul Bowles
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
~ Paulo Coelho
When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.
~ Paulo Coelho
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.
~ Paulo Coelho
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
~ Louise Colet
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.
~ Douglas Wilson
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
~ Louise Colet
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
~ Antonin Artaud
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
~ Eli Siegel
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
~ Ouida
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson