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“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm pain for a while or anguish, and excite fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart” Jane Austen, Emma
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus, The Fall
“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion” Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts its favor, offering to sell her charms to philosophy.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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