charming quotes

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

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  Enemies of Promise, ch.16.

I know heisa devil, but hehassomethingoftheangel yet undefaced in him, which makes him so charming and agreeable that I must love him, be he never so wicked.

- Sir George Etherege
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

   When people are taken out of their depths they lose

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

- Henry James
Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

Look not thou on beauty's charming, Sit thou still when kings are arming. Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep thy finger, Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Bride of Lammermoor, ch.3 (LucyAshton's song).

No furniture so charming as books.

- Rev Sydney Smith
Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol1, ch. 9.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
  Letter to George Selwyn, 2 Dec. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).