Quotes of: Charming Keyword

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giacomo Casanova

Hans Gruber: Now, you *can* break the code? Theo: You didn't bring me along for my charming personality.

Die Hard

Mark McPherson: I must say, for a charming, intelligent girl, you certainly surrounded yourself with a remarkable collection of dopes.

Laura

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Lucy Larcom

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

Raymond E. Feist

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

Mohamed El-Erian

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 th...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Deckard: I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming.

Blade Runner

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Harvey

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.

Woflgang Amadeus Mozart

If she can charm a smile on an endless frown, you should keep that person and never let her down.

X.V.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Gracie Allen

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Elinor Lipman

...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of Am...

The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Emily's Quest

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

A Familiar Rain

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

Gone with the Wind

To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

Barnaby Rudge