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Quotes About Charm

A bevy of fair women.
~ John Milton
Southerners smile more than other Americans.
~ John Shelton Reed
I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.
~ John Singleton
Mine! You know you wanna be mine! ?I'm so fine. You're so fine. You deserve to be mine....
~ John Zakour
Ha, now he's even more appealing," Nimue laughed.
~ John Zakour
Impassivity was quite natural to her concern for perfect form: she could never have displayed an untidy face like mine. It was partly because of this strange tense serenity that a friend of ours used to call her the "Fallen Angel". Her subtle body, her pensive face lighted by the pale brow, put forth a charm that acted powerfully on those who are attracted by the tragic greatness of androgyny. She spoke, determined to allay my fears: "Kini: I must go away.
~ Ella Maillart
although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.
~ Ellen Kushner
Black is a girl's best friend.
~ Ellen Schreiber
You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.
~ Ellen Sussman
a lady to her fingertips.
~ Elliot Roosevelt
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Nothing I do is princely since I met you
~ Eloisa James
That sleepy, sensual smile of hers ought to be outlawed. It said everything, without saying anything.
~ Eloisa James
He'd never seen a lady's hair down in a public place, and here was Miss Jerningham - Gabby - blithely shaking her curls, as if the crowd of stevedores, sailors, and boatmen around her were naught. 'A lady does not groom herself in public!' 'I'm afraid I'm used to being on display,' she said brightly. 'In the village, my father and I were the only Europeans. My hair was considered to be a good-luck charm-
~ Eloisa James
You could seduce a saint with that smile.
~ Eloisa James
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
A single run of luck has made the fortune of many a charm and many idols.
~ bagehot walter xii
She is the flowering branch of the peony, Richly-laden with honey-dew. Hers is the charm of the vanished fairy, That broke the heart of the dreamer king In the old legend of the Cloud and Rain. Pray, who in the palace of Han Could be likened unto her, Save the lady, Flying Swallow, newly-dressed In all her loveliness?
~ bai li ii
Her power was the brilliance of her charm and it had brought her to where she was now. I had the feeling that neither her wife nor her son could diminish it. That quality must have condemned her to an ice-cold loneliness.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
His dark brown hair was on the short side, and he had an air of
~ Barbara Freethy
You lose your sense of perspective when you get too close, and the charm goes.
~ Barbara Pym
Yet, when one came to think of it, the only flowers that were really perfect were those, like the peonies that went so well with one's charming room, that possessed the added grace of having been presented to oneself.
~ Barbara Pym
I will give you a charm against sorrow: smile at the kisses of Pain. She is a sensitive lover and likes not to be flouted.
~ barker elsa iii
I know that I am a charmer, for when I wait Time always stands still.
~ barker elsa iv