Charm Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

Quotes with keyword Charm
0 1 2 3 4

~ "Öshort-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things..." ~

President Theodore Roosevelt

~ There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~

Mark Twain

~ Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. ~

Jean Baudrillard

~ Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. ~

William Makepeace Thackeray

~ Humour and a bit of charm will get most women in bed. ~

Jerri Byrne

~ The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another. ~

George Santayana

~ It was pretty ugly. It definitely lacked charm. ~

Dan Evon

~ The wonderful scope and variety of female loveliness, if too long suffered to sway us without decision, shall finally confound all power of selection. The confirmed bachelor is, in America, at least, quite as often the victim of a too profound appreciation of the infinite charmingness of woman, as made solitary for life by the legitimate empire of a cold and tasteless temperament. ~

Herman Melville

~ The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. ~

Susan Faludi

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

Marcel Proust

~ The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. ~

Susan Sontag

~ Witchcraft is not evil. At least not any more than lighting a votive candle, praying for a sick friend, or carrying a lucky charm is. However, there are some who do view witchcraft as evil. This is only because organized religion (primarily the Christian church) has conditioned them to fear anything which strays from their narrow condemning view. After all, if you have the ability to fend for yourself, solve your own problems, and choose your own method of spiritual expression, why would you need the confined structure of a church? ~

LADY SABRINA

~ What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it\'s charming. ~

Edgar Degas

~ It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. ~

Blaise Pascal

Page : 0 1 2 3 4

Quotation Topics Begins with C | Books related to : Charm| Find quotes under the category Charm Quotes