"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."

Charm, Personality, Conversation, Attraction

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"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."

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"Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing."

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"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

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"Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before."

Lydia Lunch, American Musician

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"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

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"We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that."

Jennifer Saunders, British Comedian

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"The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question."

William Banting, English Celebrity

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"Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you."

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"He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave."

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist

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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."

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"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."

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"Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions."

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"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."

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"The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements-an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast."

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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

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