Charm

(74 votes)   If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Gore Vidal
1925-, American Novelist, Critic

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(213 votes)   Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(169 votes)   Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(125 votes)   Charm is more than beauty.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(113 votes)   Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(79 votes)   There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(78 votes)   Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

John Mason Brown
1800-1859, American Militant Abolitionist

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(74 votes)   No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

P. D. James
1920-, British Mystery Writer

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(70 votes)   All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(70 votes)   I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(61 votes)   There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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