Charm
A melody; a song.
A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.
That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.
Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.
To make music upon; to tune.
To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.
To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.
To make a musical sound.
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Charm Quotations
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
Margaret Mitchell
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Gene Tierney
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
James McAvoy
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Elder
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. Forster
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Charm Translations
charm in Danish is ynde
charm in Dutch is aantrekkelijkheid
charm in German is Anmut {f}, Charme {m}, Zauber {m}, Reiz
charm in Italian is attrattiva, grazia
charm in Latin is blanditia, venustas, lepor lepos, dulcedo
charm in Portuguese is encanto
charm in Spanish is garbo, amuleto, encanto
charm in Swedish is tjusning, tjusa, charm
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