Charm Quotes

"Well, I can imagine many faces more beautiful than Eliza's, though not more charming. I allow she has small claims to perfection; but then, I maintain that, if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ~ Emma by Jane Austen The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens "Americans are so charming, that we really must not mind their money." ~ The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." ~ The Mourning Bride by William Congreve No virtue could charm him, no vice shock him. He had about him a natural good manner, which seemed to qualify him for the highest circles, and yet he was never out of place in the lowest. ~ Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope "It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none." ~ What Every Woman Knows by James M. Barrie "Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde