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Jai Ganesh

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Charmed and Charming Quotes - I

Charmed and Charming Quotes - I

1. Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. - Walter Scott

2. I bear a charmed life. - William Shakespeare

3. Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. - Aldous Huxley

4. When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. - Blaise Pascal

5. I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into it, and pseudo-political about the whole thing, but as soon as I saw her, I was utterly charmed. I'm just completely enchanted by Kate and William. - Anne Hathaway

6. Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato

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

8. The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. - Bertrand Russell.

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