Charmed Quotes
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Fly hence, shadows, that do keep, Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
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More Charmed Quotes
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
— 1876 TheHuntingof theSnark,'Fit the Fifth: TheBeaver's Lesson'.
I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth.
john stuart mill— 1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.
You entered my aura and fell into my arms. I just wrapped around you like a snake that's been charmed.
amber (pop star)— "You Move Me", My Kind of World (2004).
It wasn't quite what is seemed: a lack of pleasantries(My able body isn't what it used to be)I must admit I was charmed by your advancesYour advantage left me helplessly into you
ben gibbard— Title Track
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
o. henry— "Next to Reading Matter"
In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild.
grandma moses— Unnamed author of her obituary in The New York Times (14 December 1961)
Between the mysteries of death and life Thou standest, loving, guiding, — not explaining; We ask, and Thou art silent, — yet we gaze, And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining; No crushing fate, no stony destiny! Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
harriet beecher stowe— "Life's Mystery", reported in Charlotte Fiske Rogé, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1832, p. 544).
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;They pursued it with forks and hope;They threatened its life with a railway-share;They charmed it with smiles and soap.
— Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, Fit 5.
Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame! A draught that mantles high, And seems to lift this earthly frame Above mortality. Away! to me—a woman—bring Sweet water from affection's spring.
felicia hemans— Felicia Hemans, Woman and Fame.
“Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality . Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.”
Isaac Asimov— Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”
The Don's difficult role never seemed to tax Juozapaitis excellent dramatic voice. Throughout the opera listeners were charmed by his great expressive range as he moved with ease from comic exchanges with Leporello to tender love sings.
vytautas juozapaitis— Martha Fawbush, "Bravo Concerts opens with excellent performance of Mozart classic". Asheville Citizen Times (October, 2003)
How is it, Chloe, that your pretty skirt Is torn so badly by the winds that hurt Real people, you who, in eternity, sing The hours, sun in your hair appearing And disappearing? How is that your breasts Are pierced by shrapnel, and the oak groves burn, While you, charmed, caring not at all, turn To run through forests of machinery and concrete And haunt us with the echoes of your feet?
czesław miłosz— "A Book in the Ruins" (1941)
I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
friedrich nietzsche— As quoted in "Idea of Anti-Semitism Filled Nietzsche With Ire and Melancholy" in The New York Times (19 December 1987).
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
— Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, Fit 5.
Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame! A draught that mantles high, And seems to lift this earthly frame Above mortality. Away! to me a woman bring Sweet water from affection's spring.
felicia hemans— Felicia Hemans, Woman and Fame.
Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), line 50.
What fairy-like music steals over the sea, entrancing our senses with charmed melody?
Wilson— Mrs. M. C. Wilson, What Fairy-like Music.
