Quotes About Charm

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

The Beautiful is always strange.

The secret of good magic is another magic.

Sit there and look pretty.

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

You're good. You're very good. It's chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get into your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade.

I told Nora: "I'm not one to suggest that your charm wouldn't make any man turn himself inside out for you, but don't be too sure that guy isn't kidding us." "So it's come to that," she said. "You're jealous of policemen.

Just you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

She had large, wide-set green eyes, and long brown hair that curled slightly and turned to gold at the tips. She wore a long, straight blue dress that accentuated the slimness of her frame. She was perhaps an inch taller than Peter, and by the look of her she took baths.

You're impossible, she told him. Of course I am, he answered. It's part of my charm.

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basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

Now a second-order vain person is a vain person who's also vain about appearing to have an utter lack of vanity. Who's enormously afraid that other people will perceive him as vain. A second-order vain person will sit up late learning jokes in order to appear funny and charming, but will deny that he sits up late learning jokes. Or he'll perhaps even try to give the impression that he doesn't regard himself as funny at all.

had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.

He was rather dull, perhaps, but would not such wine make any conversation pleasant?

My wife says you have been singing like an angel,' he said to Becky. Now there are angels of two kinds, and both sorts, it is said, are charming in their way.

This rough magic I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena

Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.