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- It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
- Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), La Chute (The Fall),1956
- Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
- James Thomson
- Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), breakfast of champions (page 19)
- I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions (page 20)
- The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
- Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
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