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They dazzle our eyes as they fly to our hearts. - Robert Burns Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. - Cyril Connolly A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Unhappy sex, whose beauty is your snare. - John Dryden A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes. - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle Charming women can true converts make; we love the precept for the teacher's sake. - Benjamin Franklin Expression alone can invest beauty with conquering charms. - Henry Fuseli A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love. - Jean de la Bruyere She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) When she passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. - Thomas Babington Macaulay Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive. - Frederick Saunders
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