Charming

Famous quotes containing the word charming:

    “Mildred Pierce: And just what do you do, Mr. Beragon?
    Monte Beragon: I loaf. Oh, in a decorative and highly charming manner.
    Mildred Pierce: Is that all?
    Monte Beragon: With me, loafing is a science.”
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

    “Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R’s, a little music and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)