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Quotes About Charm

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beauty Is A Talent
~ Unknown
The students adore your father,' a perfumed woman said to me. 'Aren't you lucky to live with such a charming man!' 'He's even more charming at home,' Mom said. 'Isn't he, Bea? He rides a unicycle through the house -' '- even up and down the stairs,' I added. 'He juggles eggs as he makes breakfast every morning -' '- which he serves to us in bed of course,' I said. '- and pulls fragrant bouquets out of his ass,' Mom finished. 'He's just a joy.
~ Unknown
I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.
~ Nathan Fillion
To some degree...he has the same effect on people. People naturally flock to him. It's like he's giving off a light that I don't have. It's so bright I feel like I'll be extinguished.
~ Natsuki Takaya
It's not lying, it's flirting.
~ Neil Strauss
Marriage was very simple. You married a person you liked, and did just as you liked, exactly as before; and the person adored you, and even if he lost his temper sometimes over a beefsteak, or a missing shirt, he was still the most charming person in the world.
~ Unknown
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new....
~ Unknown
It wasn't that they were all pretty, but they were all attractive; they'd obviously taken endless trouble over their appearance, playing up any good feature and being clever about the remainder, and it was really delightful to walk down a street past this moving frieze of faces and figures, each of which seemed to have its own cunning distinction. They
~ Nicholas Monsarrat
We also used a Mellotron, with its weird fluxing tape loops of string sounds, which the Musician's Union were up in arms about, as they thought it would mark the end of live string players. The instrument now seems so quaint it feels as though it should be in a museum alongside the serpent and crumhorn, but its sound is so distinctive it is now digitally re-created in soundboxes with all its imperfections part of the continuing charm.
~ Nick Mason
Dornan gave me a wink, as if to say he saw I was glowing under a bit of flattery as much as anyone else in the room.
~ Nicola Griffith
This one's as pretty as a grass snake, but much more dangerous.
~ Nicola Griffith
He grinned, and winked one of those startling greened-bronze eyes.
~ Nicola Griffith
Her smile was warm, her hand pressure brief but sincere, and her makeup flawless.
~ Nicola Griffith
Kathy Kerouac knew the power of her voice. It was, she said, her 'golden thing,' an amulet protecting her against all disorders of the spirit. Her voice was a charm that could stop violence and transform crudeness into curtesy, foolishness into finesse. So Kathy Kerouac was under the impression that nothing was ever altogether dangerous, the feeling that no word spoken could soil her world.
~ Unknown
You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
~ Nicole Kidman
Justin Michaels! He's sort of adorable. And hunky. And mysterious, in a hunky, adorable kind of way.
~ Nicole Melanie Marks
It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
~ Nigella Lawson
All this has for me an indescribable charm, perhaps because I no longer see it, and because anything from which we are separated is pleasing to us.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!
~ Noel Coward