For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.
Charm Quotes (194 Quotes)
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by him. His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him. There was something in his low languid voice that was absolutely fascinating. His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to her- though her motives had been often misunderstood, her feelings disregarded, and her comprehension under-valued; though she had known the pains of tyranny, of ridicule, and neglect, yet almost every recurrence of either had led to something consolatory... and the whole was now so blended together, so harmonised by distance, that every former affliction had its charm.
His physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded or not, according to the charm you found in a blue eye of remarkable fixedness and a jaw of somewhat angular mold, which is supposed to bespeak resolution.
A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments to returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it...
Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand-when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find-all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions. I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.
You've asked one person to do too much. As a result we don't have good planning, ... Because of the way it has functioned in this town, we haven't had long-term planning to determine how we preserve our island character and charm.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
The little word is has its tragedies it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
This show will take you straight to the mountaintops with its old time charm. All the musicians are extremely talented and this will be a special performance.
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those.
Maybe he's my good luck charm.
To garden, you open your personal space to admit a few, a great many, or thousands of plants which exude charm, pleasure, beauty, oxygen, conversation, friendship, confidence, and other rewards should you succeed in meeting their basic needs. This is why people garden. It can be easy but challenging, and the rewards are priceless.
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Scarlett Sir, you are no gentleman. Rhett And you, miss, are no lady.... Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.
Not the soul that's whitest
Wakens love the sweetest:
When the heart is lightest
Oft the charm is fleetest.
The body will shine if the character is fine service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
Well, just another typical Boston College -Wake Forest game. The third time's a charm for us.
Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.'
the charm, the humor, the intelligence -- the wise man that he is.
What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.
The last time we played, the game plan changed at the 11th hour with us not having our point guard. This time, we're ready. Hopefully, the third time (the teams split a pair of games in the regular season) will be a charm.
Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.
Of Ashleigh Brilliants work 'Endlessly quotable ... they draw one by the charm of their diversity of texture and taste.' Eric Korn, The (London) Times Literary Supplement 'Outstandingly good. I've been a fan for years.' Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle 'I really like the things Ashleigh Brilliant thinks of. The only time he makes me mad is when he thinks of things before I do.' Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts. 'Wonderfully inspirational and insane messages.' Professor J. Katz, Dept. of Psychology, John Abbott College, Canada.
Maybe the fourth time will be the charm.
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
I like the charm and the life in the Fan - the street theater,
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.
This whole idea of David and Goliath is a real natural thing to root for the underdog. The charm of this tournament is every single night, we're all surprised by the things that happen.
He has a charm offensive under way with the far right, and we understand that, but at some point, to get business done, he has to come back to the center of the political spectrum and work with those like the president who are in the center.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.