Quotes about Charm

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

in those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair was black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. I

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

Teeth are always in style.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Her voice is full of money,... That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it....High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl....

They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.

She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

Books may well be the only true magic

Where there were lilacs there would be luck.