Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

All appears to change when we change.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

—William Shakespeare

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

—Oscar Wilde

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

—Albert Camus