After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
John Clare

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope

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

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason Cooley

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.
Christopher Walken

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giacomo Casanova

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
Patti Page

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
Saffron Burrows

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
James Theodore Bent

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley