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“The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people”
― Richard Avedon

“Charm is getting people to say "yes" without ever having to ask them a question.”
― Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season

“Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that crown the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character. He was beginning to acquit himself none too badly in the use of the sentimental and picturesque language which is called wit in certain drawing-rooms.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“When a woman wants your attention, she uses her smile. When she wants your wallet, she uses her charm. When she wants your heart, she uses her touch. When she wants your soul, she uses her kiss.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”
― Marc Fitten

“Is she sane?â€� asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. ‘I’ll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Some were made with skill and intelligence
Some with passion and charm
But they, they were raw, and strived to remain soâ€�”
― Pearl Pandya

“Icarus."
"Hmm?"
"I don't have a hidden agenda. Nor do I intend to use you or mislead you with my charm."
Despite herself, she smiled, glancing at him. His face was studiously neutral.
"The day you act charming, I'll know something is wrong.”
― Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart

“The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity.”
― Mr. Depravity

“Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)”
― Charles Baxter, Believers: A novella and stories

“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“Sonia's terribly fond of juggling with people's lives. I never shall forget when she made me go to her doctor...I can only say he very nearly killed me. It's not her fault if I'm here today. She's entirely unscrupulous. She gets a hold over people much too easily, with her charm and her prestige, and then forces her own values on them.”
― Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

“Money can’t buy everything, but the personal magnetism that enables a man to make lots of money can, indeed, obtain most things.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Funny how things that once seemed so charming can become dull and annoying. We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Mari reached over and retrieved her cup of stew, sipping at it. "It's cold. Yours must be, too. Sorry."
Alain picked up his and finished it off quickly. "Between the fire and your presence, I am warm enough.”
― Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur

“Translucent golden hair. Finely-textured white skin. Moist red lips. Delicate and youthful features that made sexual identity difficult to discern, but contradictorily, at the same time cast off a strange and alluring charm that sent a chill up the spine.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger

“... he will see a kind of bloom and fresh beauty in an old woman or an old man; and he will be able to look with sober eyes on the seductive charm of his own slave boys”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lack elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I would always show up on Sunday morning, looking like hell after having partied all through the weekend without sleep. When I arrived, they would prime my inebriated carcass for church and drag me with them. And I’d prime myself by taking some sort of upper.
Sometimes I’d still fall asleep on the pew, but luckily, I was not the only one. After church, I would smile and strut my charm with the doting church mothers. I was so cunning about my addiction that most of them didn’t have a clue, other than the occasional rumor of an arrest, but those could easily be blamed on bad company. When I got home, I would sleep through the rest of the day and night until I finally awoke for school on Monday.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“El encanto verdadero siempre se roba las palabras".”
― Andrés Asevís, Cosa negra

“With metta meditation over time you become less affected by previous conditions that would create negative thoughts of ill will. When your mind is at peace in this way, then you speak in a straight forward and gentle manner, as the sutta points out. You begin to related to the world differently - with patience, consideration and understanding. People - and even animals! naturally gravitate to you. They feel comfortable with you, and their minds are gentle and soft toward you.”
― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta

“Instinctively, her fingers drifted to the four-leaf clover charm on the delicate chain at her throat, and she rubbed the little leaves. Long ago, her mother had told her that the four leaflets on the clover stood for faith, hope, love, and luck.
"Those four elements are the recipe for a charmed life, Georgia May," her mother had promised her.”
― Rachel Linden, Recipe for a Charmed Life

“There's something special about you that sets you apart - a je ne sais quoi. You possess a unique combination of elegance, beauty, and sensuality that some people envy. They may have more status symbols than you, but they still feel poor next to you, because they don't understand what you have. Instead of trying to understand, they choose to hate you, gossip about you, and ridicule your good name.
But others love being around you. They appreciate your energy, your simplicity of life, and your charm.
You are perfect from your toenails to the top of your head. You embody grace and are an example of expression. Don't change to please others because you are perfect just the way you are"
Kenan Hudaverdi 30/01/2024”
― Kenan Hudaverdi

“I embroider these tales with charm and magic because that’s how I experienced them. The trickster is a threshold being, between two realms. One foot planted here, the other beyond.

The letter and the spirit.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“His home was cozy and smelled good, and had the feeling of stuff without the feeling of clutter. Every vase was a gift from someone special and every book was dog-eared. He had put a shelf on the radiator and on the shelf were old photographs of his kids, his friends, people he loved. Just being in the apartment made Lydia feel like something with a really charming backstory.”
― Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story