“It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.” MeanJesusChristInterestingKnownJesus ChristCharmSublimeMixturesMost InterestingStirringChildlikeDostoyevsky Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.” MeanArtForcePaintingMoralityContraryCharmPrimitiveExtensionsDecadence Book:Georges Braque Source: Georges Braque
“Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.” PeopleThinkingMeanHardInterestingHard WorkPoliticianSmartCharmGood PeopleCharmingSchedulesCaricatures Author:Tucker Carlson
“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.” MeanTwoLife IsSufferingEnemyCivilizationEssentialsAspectSouthMortalsMannersCodeCharmTwo ThingsNativeSouthernEfficientEfficiencyBishopsCuisineAspects Of LifeCarelessnessMortal Enemies Author:Richard M. Weaver
“If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?” IfsWorldShouldMeanWholeClassDemocracyEssenceMinistersCharmCollaborationSocialistDominationBourgeoisAbolition Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh
“Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.” MeanEyeSexFrontsPrideApproachShotsShameSacredRevengeGenerousCharmContemptScornMaidsDestroyersMuster Author:John Armstrong