Charm Quotes

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall), 1956

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

William Congreve

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

John F. Kennedy

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

Washington D. C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Marquis de Sade

You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Anne - Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Younger, Letters

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.

Cowpe

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

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.

Aldous Huxley

The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

Marcel Proust

Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa