Charm Quotes and Sayings

Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- William Congreve

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
- E. M. Forster

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
- Nick Park

There are charms made only for distant admiration.
- Samuel Johnson

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
- Oliver Herford

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
- Edgar Saltus

Their charms, Sir John, I shall discover, I have no doubt, when dinner’s over; At present, if to judge I’m able, The finest works are on the table: I should prefer the cook just now, To Rubens or to Gerrard Dow.
- William Combe

Age, like distance lends a double charm.
- Oliver Herford

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

I’ve worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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

I’m convinced that it’s energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
- Judith Krantz

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
- Erma Bombeck

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
- John Mason Brown

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
- Jean Paul Richter

I find that acrylics dry very fast – which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don’t blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.
- Boris Vallejo

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
- Gore Vidal

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
- John Adams

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