Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
What is lacking in the cities, and most of the men, however, is charm and taste.
You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull.
When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.
There is part of me that will always feel wrong for any leading man-type, charming guy or whatever. I am not that guy. I am so weird. I say inappropriate things, and if I have any charm at all, it's in my utter lack of charm.
I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.
