Quotes About Charm

seemed to proclaim the unpeopled vacancy of this estranged forest, and helped me to understand how paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory, which must inevitably lose the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from their not being apprehended by the senses. The reality that I had known no longer existed.

Really, I find all that sort of thing too deadly. Listen, it's not always as boring as this at my parties. I hope that you will soon come and dine again as a compensation, with no pedigrees next time," she murmured, incapable both of appreciating the kind of charm which I could find in her house and of having sufficient humility to be content to appeal to me only as a herbarium, filled with plants of another day.

At the very beginning of love, as at its end, we are not exclusively attached to a single beloved: it is the yearning to love, of which that person will be the loved outcome, and later the echo left in the memory, that wanders voluptuously in a place full of charms—sometimes deriving only from contingencies of nature, bodily pleasures, or habitation—interchangeable and interrelated enough for it to feel in harmony with any of them.

and helped me better understand what a contradiction it is to search in reality for memory's pictures, which would never have the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from not being perceived by the senses.

They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its charm and significance, and meant no more to my life than a purely conventional framework, just as the action of a novel is framed in the railway carriage, on a seat of which a traveller is reading it to pass the time.

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That's what long observation has taught me. On the other hand, with a full belly, and a good harvest in the barn, and a fire in the hearth, there's nothing so charming, so generous, no one more decent than a well-fed man. But

Oh, that's lovely wrist action you've got there. Fancy coming into the larder with me and earning yourself five woodbines?

The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

Anyone who is funny and doesn't take herself to seriously is attractive to me

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

She is amazingly amazing, beautifully beautiful, and heavenly heavensent while being imperfectly perfect. She is the one for me.

Reasons to date me: I laugh at my own jokes so you don't have to.