CHARM

Related Subjects: Beauty, Grace, Personality, Smile, Sweetness, Youth

1. Alick: What is charm, exactly, Maggie?
   
   Maggie: Oh, it's—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. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. Batt some have charm for none.—J. M. BARRIE, What Every Woman Knows
   

2. That is the worst of those dear people who have charm; they are so terrible to do without, when once you have got accustomed to them and all their ways.—DU MAURIER, Trilby
   

3. "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, The Task of Social Hygiene

4. To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
   One native charm, than all the gloss of art.—GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
   

5. `Well, for my part,' they say, 'I cannot see the charm of Mrs. Jones.'
   
   `Is it not just conceivable,' I feel inclined to answer, 'that Mrs. Jones hasn't tried to charm you?'—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
   

6. She is pretty to walk with,
   And witty to talk with,
   And pleasant, too, to think on.—SIR JOHN SUCKLING, The Tragedy of Brennoralt
   

7. All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.—OSCAR WILDE, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.