Quotations about Charm

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women.  Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.  ~Havelock Ellis


Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.  ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.  ~Oliver Herford


Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.  ~Henri Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Amiel


All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.  ~Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise


Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith


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.  ~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm


There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.  ~Josh Billings


It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming or tedious.  ~Oscar Wilde


Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.  ~John Mason Brown


There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.  ~Henry Van Dyke


Forbidden things have a secret charm.  ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus


There's a difference between beauty and charm.  A beautiful woman is one I notice.  A charming woman is one who notices me.  ~John Erskine