#charm

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#combined #distinction #fascinated #greatest #me

Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way, but I think it must be love. Not the tepid, fickle love of which the poets sing—the love that forms or fades with kindness or cruelty. No, this love is something more divine—like the love of a god, both vengeful and benign. It is as constant as the sea. And as beautiful. As dangerous. As mysterious. She is the only woman to ever refuse me. And yet, I want… ↗

— Bettie Sharpe

#prince-charming #beauty

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#beautiful woman #charmed #had #heart #i

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

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#charming #dominating #generous #i #me

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. ↗

— Loretta Young

#crowd #follow #herself #she #woman

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are! ↗

— Alma Gluck

#complete #complete control #control #english #etc

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#anybody #charming #dunno #fool #glamorous

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly