charm quotes

Charm never made a rooster.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
Of poorly-organized attempts to maintain peace by good intentions. Quoted in  James B Reston Deadline (1991).

   Conceit spoils the finest genius†and the great charm of all power is modesty.

- Louisa May Alcott
  Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

Charm†it's a sort of a 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.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
  What Every  Woman Knows (published1918), act1.

Theyare as venomous as the poison of a serpent: even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears; Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer: charm he never so wisely.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 58:4^5.

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

- Luis Bun‹ u el
  Title of film.

Vous savez ce qu'est le charme: une manie'  re de s'entendre re  pondre oui sans avoir pose   aucune question claire. You know what charm is: a wayof getting theanswer yes without having asked any clear question.

- Albert Camus
  La Chute (translated by Stuart Gilbert).

   Round and round the circle Completing the charm So the knot be unknotted The cross be uncrossed The crooked be made straight And the curse be ended.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Family Reunion, pt.2, sc.3.

Le charme de la nouveaute  , peu a'   peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a'   nu l'e  ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me"  mes formes et le me"  me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

- Gustave Flaubert
  Madame Bovary, pt.2, ch.12.

When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.29.

How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.9^12.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his wayaround the floor.

- AlanJay Lerner
  'You Did It', from My Fair Lady (music by Marcus Loewe).

I have been here a fortnight and I think I shall be here fifteen or twenty days longer, although I do not very much like the place, for this puddling in a tub continually is no charm to me.

-James, 4th Earl of Perth
OnVenice. Collected in Letters to his sister the Countess of Erroll, and other members of his family.

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato  grafo haya sido para m | el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo  n†en la pantalla que impregno   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

- Horacio Quiroga
Anaconda,'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa' ('Miss Dorothy Phillips, MyWife').