49 Charm Quotes

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is. (309)

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness. (p. 102)

Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.

'Oh my precocious one,' she said. 'You never fail to charm me. Bisexual is it, how Byronic and charming. Doesn't that double's one's chances for love? I'm so delighted.'

He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it's a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless, the word is charm - charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It's not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It's a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartettes.

Once after a dinner party, Gregory Peck and I drove Fred Astaire home. Fred lived in a colonial house that had a long porch with many pillars. When we dropped him off, he danced along the whole front porch, then opened the door, tipped his hat to us, and disappeared. Wow! Greg and I couldn't speak for a few minutes. It was a beautiful way to say thank you.

A very distinguished colleague began his criticism of this show by asking what is Mr Astaire's secret. May I suggest that the solution hangs on a little word of three letters? Mr Astaire's secret is that of the late Rudolph Valentino and of Mr Maurice Chevalier - sex, but sex so bejewelled and be-pixied that the weaker vessels who fall for it can pretend that it isn't sex at all but a sublimated projection of the Little Fellow with the Knuckles in His Eyes. You'd have thought by the look of the first night foyer that it was Mothering Thursday, since every woman in the place was urgent to take to her bosom this waif with the sad eyes and the twinkling feet.

I'd never seen him out front before. It was also the first time I realized that Fred had sex appeal. Fred. Wherever did he get it?

As he comes along the drive from the house with Mrs Whitefield he is sedulously making himself agreeable and entertaining, and thereby placing on her slender wit a burden it is unable to bear.

Perhaps the absense of glamour contributed to my popularity. It may be that audiences felt comfortable with an actress who seemed cozy, approachable, unlike the flamboyant leading ladies I once knew in the theater.

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites - and escapes.

'He's the most charming man you could ever hope to come across ...' - Gwyneth Paltrow (People magazine, November 24, 2004)

This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.

But charm, intelligence, and good looks, did they add up to love?

Ou vous avez un rival ou vous n'en n'avez pas. Si vous en avez un, il faut plaire pour lui etre prefere; si vous n'en n'avez pas, il faut encore plaire pour eviter d'en avoir.

Dear God, she was beautiful. Sharon was more beautiful as a teenager than she was in her twenties; in Europe people would turn around on the street just to look at her.

My friends used to tease me. 'How can you wake up in the morning and look at that face of hers?' It was a good question. Sharon was so over whelmingly, so incredibly beautiful that anyone not knowing her might think it took a lot to live with such a beauty. But you see that was another thing about Sharon. With all her beauty, everyone loved her. I never heard anyone say a bad word about her, not even another actress. And in this town that's not only a rarity, it's an impossibility!

Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm!

If you were to put that man on a moor with nothing on but his shirt, he would become whatever he pleased.

You just don't let up do you? It's my most endearing trait. After a while it grows on you

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called 'It', and cats - as well as women - always knew when he came into the room.

Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!

Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover.

Heath's sexy, but it's not an I'm-better-than-you kind of sexy. He's so much fun to be around because he doesn't try to play it cool.

Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ... Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.

That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walk down a street.

'I thought she was the most adorable thing ever put on the face of the planet.' ~ Ray Bolger