Quotes About Charm

However much Grant enjoyed his Parisian rambles and glimpses of quotidian life, he was mystified about the charms American expatriates found there. I have walked over the city so thoroughly that the streets are quite familiar to me, he told Buck, his provincial roots showing. The city is beautiful, but I do not see the inducements for so many Americans remaining here year after year who are not engaged in business. I certainly should prefer any of our large cities as a residence.p871

Kitty] was the type of woman Hamilton found irresistible: pretty, coquettish, somewhat spoiled, and always ready for flirtatious banter.

Don't underestimate the attraction of your ass, Roscoe, whatever you do.

Tanana devojka što provejava kroz senke oko bezli?ne ku?e u vojnoj bazi, kao petnaestogodišnjakinja dovoljno žena da bude o?aravaju?a, ali i dovoljno devoj?ica da bude zabranjena.

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.

It's just a little initiation we have here at Spence - we like to torture each other. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

With a low bow, she is gone in a haze of roses and hope

You're the elephant's eyebrows, doll.' He said.

You delight in making a fool of me," she accused in a furious whisper. "Not true," Caleb replied smoothly. "But I do like watching the sparks catch in your eyes when you realize you've just been had. May I walk you home, Miss Chalmers?" "Certainly not. In fact, I would deem it a great favor if you would simply stop bothering me, Major.

I'm from Georgia, honey. We consider all women dangerous; it's part of their charm.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

There is always a certain charm in tracing the evolution of theories in the original papers; often such study offers deeper insights into the subject matter than the systematic presentation of the final result polished by the words of many contemporaries.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

If you want to get people to like you, you must always lead the conversation on to the subject of their characters. Nothing pleases them so much. They'll talk with enthusiasm for hours and go away saying that you're the most charming, cleverest person they've ever met.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

It was typical of so many rural French restaurants, with its air of quiet assurance, a sense of being what it was and nothing more.

La bella figura...it's at the heart of Italian life...it's about doing things beautifully.

Jamie said he thought that people who had nothing to prove were usually charming in their dealings with others. "Only the insecure are nasty," he said.

I have become well versed in magic.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.