It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~Oscar Wilde


Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ~Albert Camus; The Fall; 1956


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


There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ~Henry Van Dyke


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. ~James Matthew Barrie; What Every Woman Knows; about charm


Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm; and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith


Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ~John Mason Brown


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


Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford


Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus


Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Fr?d?ric Amiel


All charming people have something to conceal; usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ~Cyril Connolly; Enemies of Promise


There is a sort of charm in ugliness; if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~Josh Billings