Charms

Famous quotes containing the word charms:

    “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
    —Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)

    “There was no corn—in the wide market-place
    All loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold;
    They weighed it in small scales—and many a face
    Was fixt in eager horror then; his gold
    The miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold
    Through hunger, bared her scornèd charms in vain.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Ladies, like variegated tulips, show,
    ‘Tis to their changes that their charms we owe;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)