It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "C" » charming
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
Author: Isak Dinesen
(
Writer)
|
Keywords:
barrel,
barreling,
charming,
kept woman,
lighted,
mutinies,
mutiny,
powder,
powdered,
powders,
saves,
seemed,
ship,
sitting,
tale,
The Women,
torch,
torches
«I hope they can amend the constitution to let Bill Clinton run again... I'm very fond of Bill Clinton personally... the world's going to miss him. He's gifted, bright, charming and charismatic.»
«I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.»
«I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too»
«Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.»
«Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend. It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.»
«How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
|
About:
Philosophy
|
Keywords:
Apollo,
charming,
crab,
crabbed,
crabs,
crude,
feast,
harsh,
lute,
lutes,
musical,
reigns,
surfeit,
surfeiting,
sweets
«Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.»
«It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
absurd,
and or,
are,
bad,
charmed,
charming,
divide,
divided up,
either,
good,
good and,
good for you,
How to be Good,
into,
in a bad way,
people,
peopled,
tedious
«I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
absurd,
air,
aired,
airing,
airs,
Air In,
air out,
approve,
approving,
attitude,
charmed,
charming,
common,
commoner,
common people,
disapprove,
disapproves,
disapproving,
interfere,
interfered,
interfering,
moral,
notice,
now,
On the air,
P.E.,
pe,
prejudiced,
prejudices,
say,
send for,
send in,
send out,
Send Up,
sent,
take notice,
take the air,
up in the air