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.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Rhyme that enslaved queen that supreme charm of our poetry that creator of our meter.

Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Nevertheless the passions whether violent or not should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music even in situations of the greatest horror should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it and thereby always remain music.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.

Early in the morning I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time we were so naive. I wanted to charm her so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

Money's a horrid thing to follow but a charming thing to meet.

When I was 7 I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms we would sew them on frilly white socks and I sold them at school.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

I bear a charmed life.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.