A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay. [ Homer ]
Mystery has great charms for womanhood. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Fatal ambition! say what wondrous charms
Delude mankind to toil for thee in arms? [ Rowe ]
The body charms because the soul is seen. [ Young ]
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, however contented, never know. [ Cowper ]
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. [ Milton ]
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [ Dante ]
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more. [ Pope ]
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. [ Congreve ]
Around her shone
The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone.
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face.
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul. [ Byron ]
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. [ Pope ]
Stillness accompanied with sound so soft,
Charms more than silence. Meditation here
May think down hours to moments. Here the heart
May give an useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books. [ Cowper ]
The string that jars
When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense,
With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,
Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. [ Rowe ]
As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]
Through the lone groves would pace in solemn mood.
Wooing the pensive charms of solitude. [ Pye ]
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. [ Bayard Taylor ]
If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. [ Thackeray ]
There's a charm in delivery, a magical art,
That thrills like a kiss from the lip to the heart;
It is the glance - the expression - the well-chosen word -
By whose magic the depths of the spirit are stirred.
The lip's soft persuasion - its musical tone:
Oh! such were the charms of that eloquent one! [ Mrs. Welby ]
Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood. [ William Shakespeare ]
O solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? [ Cowper ]
Virtue hath such charms, that even the vicious inwardly reverence it. [ Proverb ]
The knowledge of the charms one possesses prompts one to utilize them. [ Senancourt ]
An old coquette has all the defects of a young one, and none of her charms. [ A. Dupuy ]
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, yet has her humor most when she obeys. [ Pope ]
Gay mellow silks her mellow charms infold, and nought of Lyce but herself is old. [ Young ]
O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? [ Cowper ]
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, and teach that truth is truest poesy. [ Cowley ]
There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze. [ Johnson ]
The charms of wit excite admiration, those of the soul esteem, and those of the body love. [ French ]
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. [ Pascal ]
To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. [ Lord Greville ]
I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. [ Beaconsfield ]
Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, and even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates. [ Rochefoucauld ]
In love, it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that one finds pleasure in frequently recommencing. [ Prince de Ligne ]
I do not know at first what it is that charms me. The men and things of today are wont to be fairer and truer in tomorrow's memory. [ Thoreau ]
The reason why the character of woman is so often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful nature of woman to veil her soul as her charms. [ F. Schlegel ]
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to understand. [ Tuckerman ]
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms. [ Pliny the Younger ]
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]
The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star - she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. [ Bulwer ]
Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken. To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. [ Richter ]
No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. [ Goethe ]
Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]
There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]
Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]