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Charm is the quality of delighting and pleasing |
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Charm is the quality of delighting
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Charm is the quality of pleasing without–at least noticeably–trying to
- Charm is a hidden ingredient. It is like that je ne sais quoi without which you are not a great chef even if you have committed the entire Larousse gastronomique to memory. It is an ease, poise, self-assurance: perhaps even a slight but unpremeditated eccentricity. It is the quality of pleasing without–at least noticeably–trying to. John Simon
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Charm comes from being genuinely interested in and concerned about people
- I think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people. Richard Avedon
- Charm is the difference between a rote recitation of “God bless you” when someone sneezes, and a genuine interest in the person’s health. Michale Levine
- 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. D. James
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Charm comes from making people feel listened to and important
- Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. Robert Brault
- The deepest craving of human nature is the need to feel valued and valuable. The secret of charm is therefore simple: make others feel important. Brian Tracy
- Listening, Affirmation
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Charm comes from having a cheerful temperament
- There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. Henry Van Dyke
- Charm is being so exquisitely buoyant and full of life, keeping the magnet within you so surcharged with the joy of life, that even poor features are lost sight of in the bewitching attraction of the whole. Robert Collier
- Cheerfulness
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Charm comes from having a beautiful attitude towards life
- Charm is an innate quality of mind and heart, and an expression of a beautiful attitude toward life. Courtesy can be cultivated, but charm is largely an unconscious possession. Grenville Kleiser
- Attitude
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Charm is about getting people to like themselves
- Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you’re around. Robert Brault
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri Frederic Amiel
- Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.
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Being charming has its rewards
- Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. Logan Pearsall Smith
- An ounce of charm is worth a pound of lure. American Proverb
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Charm attracts and captivates
- Charm is captivating. Just as the petals of a flower unfold and open to the warmth and light of the sun, so do we unfold and open to the enchantment of charm. Charm acts as the Great Attractor, drawing us toward its magnetic source. Thokoza
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Charm is more than beauty
- Charm is more than beauty. Yiddish Proverb
- A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. Edgar Saltus
- Charm is not to be bought in jars or bottles. Nor is beauty. Both must come from within. Robert Collier
- Beauty
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower
- 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
- Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. John Mason Brown
- Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower. Evan Esar
- It’s [charm] 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. J.M. Barrie
- Flowers
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People are sometimes charming due to a dependence on the appreciation of others
- All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. Cyril Connolly
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Charm is not always genuine
- Anybody can be charming if they don’t mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Jeff Lindsay
- A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. Anita Brookner
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- An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t. Sacha Guitry
- Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm. Cyril Connolly
- Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce
- Charm: A way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. Albert Camus
- Charm: That indefinable something possessed by girls with stunning figures.
- Charm: The ability to make someone think that both of you are wonderful.
- Handsome, sweet, intelligent, spontaneous, good-looking, nice friends, charming, funny, well…Enough about ME! How about you?
- I’m a charmng coward; I fight with words. Carl Reiner
- I’m told I’m very charming when people do what I want. Steven Brust
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde
- It’s innocence when it charms us; ignorance when it doesn’t. Mignon McLaughlin
- Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. Edgar Watson Howe
- Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast but I’d try a revolver first. Josh Billings
- She was never really charming until she died. Terence
- The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. Oscar Wilde
- There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine
- You take away the looks, money, intelligence, charm and success and, really, there’s no real difference between me and George Clooney.
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