Enchantment Quotes

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Thomas Campbell)
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody. View quote
Philip Roth
I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun. View quote
Jon Anderson
My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of rage, Chained by enchantment to my stall, I see myself upon the stage Dance to amuse a music-hall. View quote
Arthur Symons
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing. View quote
Paul Torday
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. View quote
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. View quote
Antoine Rivarol
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. View quote
Dianna Agron
Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down. (Cassandra Clare)
Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough-it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based-but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec. View quote
Cassandra Clare
"Heroes see things like that," he said. "It's obviously an enchantment of some kind," Polly agreed, humouring him. "It must be," he said. It sounded as if he was humouring her. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement. [...] They have never ceased to be my guiding lights. View quote
Luis Barragán
The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere.... View quote
Van Morrison
It took me a long time to understand my water lilies... I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day... And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette. View quote
Claude Monet
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. View quote
Stephen King
She has confessed her parentage to me. Since then, the first enchantment ruined. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. View quote
Lucretius
Expression, child of soul! I fondly trace Thy strong enchantment, when the poet's lyre, The painter's pencil cathch thy sacred fire, And beauty wakes for thee her touching grace. (Helen Maria Williams)
[P]eople who canalise their lives and prearrange their enjoyments lose much of the enchantment which attends the guiding beneficence of chance. View quote
Alfred Austin
If you ever think I am over-exuberant, too unconventional, too outspoken, remember that life has not blunted me nor made me blasé or indifferent, that all things are still a joy and of interest to me because of that secret source of enchantment that flows within me - the joy of life! View quote
Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairyland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. View quote
Madison Cawein
All these poets are ascetics, monks and priests. They despise the flesh and all ballast. This world holds no enchantment for them... Poetry for them is the ultimate expression of the essence of things and thus is hymn and worship. Their poetry is one of divine names, of mysterious seals, and of spiritual extracts. View quote
Hugo Ball