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 MitfordStichwörter: charm unscrupulous
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 JamiStichwörter: success passion morality wealth contentment romance values achievement worth depth envy charm prosperity inner-strength
He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.
Gail Carson LevineWould you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?
Gail Carson LevineSometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
Sarah DessenStichwörter: life things charm first third second
But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Oscar WildeThe 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 HitchensStichwörter: united-states hypocrisy television george-w-bush double-standards golf terrorism charm war-on-terror bill-clinton statesmanship dwight-d-eisenhower
He’s an indulgent sort of man……
With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.
Stichwörter: love writing worship lovers charm love-story friendship-and-love jamie-weise awkward-silences fierce-tongue quick-lip words-of-praise
I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great detail of the Flyte family. Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, Charles, it has killed you.'
[Anthony Blanche to Charles Ryder]
Stichwörter: art charm england
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
Dean KoontzStichwörter: imagination life god wit charm con verve
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