#charm

I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #jem-carstairs #will-herondale #problems

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#enfp-vs-intj #flirting #game #nerd #nerdiness

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#charming #connery #day #even #first

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#charms #husband #lover #power #terrifies

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#charm #decades #hanging #i #lost

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#guess #happen #i #little #never

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#amid #been #called #charming #country

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#aggressive #charming #competitive #doing #fun

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#charming #get #known #mannerisms #mixture

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#absolutely #both #charm #deception #life