Dean Acheson Quotes

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

I have no natural charisma or personality, really.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.