"Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal intime

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus, The Fall

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." - Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

"[Charm] It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have." - JAMES M. BARRIE, What Every Woman Knows

"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." - Congreve, William (1670-1729)