These charm quotes will inspire you. Charm, the chanting or reciting of a magic spell or the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging charm quotes, charm sayings, and charm proverbs.
Best Charm Quotes
- “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “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.” ~ Catherine Deneuve
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” ~ Jane Austen
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“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.” ~ Kathleen Winsor
- “Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.” ~ Albert Camus
- “A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.” ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
- “The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.” ~ Alexander Pope
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“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” ~ Mark Twain
- “An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” ~ Pliny the Elder
- “Conceit spoils the finest genius? and the great charm of all power is modesty.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
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“Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn’t false.” ~ P. D. James
- “Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.” ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
- “Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.” ~ Frank Zappa
- “Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- “We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.” ~ Judith Martin
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“I don’t carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.” ~ Christopher Walken
- “There are charms made only for distant admiration.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “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.” ~ Martial
- “Things forbidden have a secret charm.” ~ Tacitus
- “Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” ~ Alexander Pope
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“Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “There’s a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor’s shame.” ~ Juvenal4
- “The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “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 Mozar
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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I’d probably make it for $3 million now so I’d have more breathing room.” ~ Quentin Tarantino
- “I’m not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy’s charm, but he took life just as it came.” ~ Gene Tierney
- “Charm is often despised but I can never see why. 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
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“Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.” ~ Havelock Ellis
- “I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.” ~ Steve Waugh , Lucky charm quotes
- “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
- “There’s no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don’t charm you and you feel you’re stuck with them.” ~ Jerome Robbins
- “Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.” ~ James Norman Hall
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“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.” ~ Margaret Mitchell
- “Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- “A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.” ~ Edgar Saltus
- “Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.” ~ John Mason Brown
- “Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.” ~ Nick Park
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“Time’s stern tide, with cold Oblivion’s wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.” ~ Anna Seward
- “Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He’s 65 years old and he’s just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.” ~ Ray Manzarek
- “Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.” ~ Bruce Paltrow
- “Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.” ~ Thomas Gray , Charm quotes smile
- “Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.” ~ John Adams
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“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” ~ John Buchan
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Power without abuse loses its charm.” ~ Paul Valery
- “I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all didn’t know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.” ~ Jeremy Irons
- “Charm” — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.” ~ Havelock Ellis
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“There is a sort of charm in ugliness if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.” ~ Josh Billings
- “When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the luster of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” ~ Akhenaton , Charm quotes for her
- “You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” ~ Teresa of Avila
- “The land of literature is a fairyland to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.” ~ Washington Irving
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“I’m convinced that it’s energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.” ~ Judith Krantz
- “It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) – I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
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“One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.” ~ William Cowper
- “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
