"Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms."
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"You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't."
"When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm."
"A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble."
"When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it."
"The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable"
"American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm."
"The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic."
"Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!"
"I can have oodles of charm when I want to."
"People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed."
"No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' ."
"Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self."
"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."
"Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease."
"Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm."
"What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here."
"Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary."
"Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people."
"As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm."