Pity is woman's sweetest charm. [ Balzac ]
There is a profound charm in mystery. [ Chatfield ]
No tree in all the grove but has its charm
Though each its hue peculiar. [ Cowper ]
Charm ache with air, and agony with words. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V. Sc.1 ]
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain.
We'll have our pleasure over again.
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night. [ Joanna Baillie ]
There are eyes half defiant.
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work us harm. [ Phoebe Cary ]
Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?
To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life;
Total extinction of the enlightened soul! [ James Thomson ]
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art. [ Goldsmith ]
Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name. [ Cowley ]
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charm of earliest birds. [ Milton ]
Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]
I believe absence is a great element of charm. [ Beaconsfield ]
The charm of eloquence - the skill
To wake each secret string,
And from the bosom's chords at will
Life's mournful music bring;
The overmastering strength of mind, which sways
The haughty and the free,
Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey
This charm was given to thee. [ Mrs. Embury ]
There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
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 ]
Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only deprived of its charm. [ De Boufflers ]
The gathered rose and the stolen heart can charm but for a day. [ Emma C. Embury ]
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. [ Richter ]
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Keith ]
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm. [ Fontanelle ]
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. [ Octave Feuillet ]
Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. [ Campbell ]
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. [ Mary Wollstonecraft ]
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. [ Emerson ]
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. [ Emerson ]
The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Imagination has more charm in writing than in speaking: great wings must fold before entering a salon. [ Prince de Ligne ]
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The charm of the past is that it is past, but women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us? [ Goethe ]
The mathematics are friends to religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity or imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. [ Arbuthnot ]
God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. [ Sydney Smith ]
Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]
I am persuaded that music is designed to prepare for heaven, to educate for the choral enjoyment of Paradise, to form the mind to virtue and devotion, and to charm away evil and sanctify the heart to God. [ Legh Richmond ]
Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Whewell ]
To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty. [ Whittier ]
To continue love in marriage is a science. It requires so little to kill those sweet emotions, those precious illusions, which form the charm of life; and it is so difficult to maintain a man at the height on which an exalted passion has placed him, especially when that man is one's husband! [ Mme. Reybaud ]
The study of art possesses this great and peculiar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with the struggles and contests of ordinary life. By private interests, by political questions, men are deeply divided, and set at variance; but beyond and above all such party strifes, they are attracted and united by a taste for the beautiful in art. [ Guizot ]