“To what do I attribute our decline? It’s far easier to be shocking than charming.”— Fernando A. Torres Related Quotes “Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.”— Wilkie Collins “Would you favor me with a dance?” Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. “Have we met before, Lady?”— Gail Carson Levine “She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”— Oscar Wilde