There's a difference between b...

There's a difference between beauty and charm.  A beautiful woman is one I notice.  A charming woman is one who notices me.

~John Erskine~

There is no personal charm so ...

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

~Henry Van Dyke~

There is a sort of charm in ug...

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

~Josh Billings~

Rarity gives a charm; so early...

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

~Marcus Valerius Martial~

No one has it who isn't capabl...

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake.

~P. D. James~

Modesty is the gentle art of e...

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

~Oliver Herford~

It's a sort of bloom on a woma...

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm~

It is absurd to divide people ...

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming or tedious.

~Oscar Wilde~

If most men and women were for...

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

~Gore Vidal~

I am bewitched with the rogue'...

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

~William Shakespeare~

Forbidden things have a secret...

Forbidden things have a secret charm.

~Publius Cornelius Tacitus~

Charming people live up to the...

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

~Logan Pearsall Smith~

Charm is... a way of getting t...

Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956~

Charm is a glow within a woman...

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

~John Mason Brown~

Charisma is a fancy name given...

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

~Robert Brault, ~

All charming people, I fancy, ...

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

~Oscar Wilde~

"Charm" - which means ...

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women.  Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

~Havelock Ellis~