“Oh, it's — 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. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.”

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”

“You are the enchanting woman who remains carved into my mind. You have a dominant character, you are authentic and charming.”

“Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom.
For if you don't, it meets a wasted doom.”
Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem, Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you fall short of. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.”

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”

“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”

“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”