Quotes About Charm

You have to promote yourself you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Robert had laughed, looking endearingly handsome and at ease in this very uncomfortable situation.

I suppose you must know you are the most beautiful, most alluring woman it has ever been my privilege to know.

Each, for me, has its own charms, though none can be considered strictly "perfect" adaptations.

There is no other woman as lovely as you . . . And only you can satisfy my soul.

Shocking it is . . . It's what comes of being too handsome.

What woman below the age of thirty could look at Jack and not fall in love with him? He is almost criminally handsome and quite irresistibly roguish. What a combination. It should not be allowed.

He is enjoying the situation . . . I can tell. I know his type. Too handsome for his own good. Thinks that he is the answer to every woman's prayer. Thinks he has only to crook a finger to make a woman come running. Thinks he can make me flush and simper and flutter my eyelashes merely by raising that eyebrow. There should be a law that gentlemen can raise only both eyebrows together or none at all. There really should.

He is a very handsome gent, Bridget conceded. That should not be allowed either, Diana said. Gentlemen who are that handsome should not be allowed to run around free doing all sorts of damage to female hearts.

He has one of those smiles that have the strange effect of turning the beholder's knees weak.

She did not wish the girl to be beguiled by such a practiced and heartless charmer.

But he had a certain presence and a charming smile that did not falter in such situations. A path opened for him as if by magic.

He had appeared so lighthearted most of the time. And it was his laughter, his teasing, and his smiling eyes that she had fallen in love with six years before.

Charm is from the Latin carmen: to sing. By "charm," I mean sing well enough to hold the reader in thrall. Whatever people like about you in the world will manifest itself on the page. What drives them crazy will keep you humble. You'll need both sides of yourself—the beautiful and the beastly—to hold a reader's attention.

Savannah gray bricks

Ninety-nine years old and batting her eyelashes like a Chi O at a KA mixer.

What kind of spell do you think Teddy is under?" said Annie. "Who knows?" said Jack.

With charm comes charm's sidekick, dilapidation.

instantaneous picture of a slender blue-gowned girl

You are still, as you ever were, lovely, beautiful beyond expression.

Dark-eyed, dark-haired, with smiles of enchanting archness and a step like a fawn—

You're absolutely gorgeous. What's your name?