The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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.
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought. . . consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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.
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely. ' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.
Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm.
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.
Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?
It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.