David Gemmell

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

British Author

Jack Thorne

I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.

English Playwright

Nina Conti

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.

English Actress

Elizabeth Berg

In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.

American Author

Ezra Taft Benson

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

American Leader

Alain de Botton

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

English Writer

Devendra Banhart

Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.

Venezuelan Musician

Monica Raymund

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

American Actress

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

American Businessman

Beguile implies a sense of being led astray by charm, not just attraction.

Hidden Persuasion

While 'beguile' can seem positive, it often suggests deceitfulness; it's less benign than simply 'charm'.

Negative Connotations

Use 'beguile' carefully; it can imply manipulation which may offend if used inaccurately.

Cautious Use

'Beguile' denotes a strategic trickery or cunningness to deceive.

Clever Deception

Beguiling someone doesn't always require malicious intent; it can happen unintentionally.

Not Always Intentional

Beguilement can be subtle, without direct lying, using charm to obscure the truth.

Subtle Trickery

'Beguile the time' is about making the duration more enjoyable, it's like a pleasant distraction.

Passing Time

'Beguile' in this sense is rarely used and can sound archaic or literary.

Less Common Usage

To 'beguile' in this context means to help someone enjoy the time they spend waiting.

Pleasantly Occupied

 starling so that I'm glad that I did I stopped because there's an image so beguiling that's I just had to show it to you of course as I say that it decides to relieve itself but he is there's two very beguiling little creatures and it allows us to continue

The 5 Musketeers Have an...

 What can we do? First of all, we cannot be beguiled by rational appearances. We've got to look underneath, and we will find there the extremism. Second of all,

Behind the lies of...

 just a few centimeters long these baby flamboyant cuddles can beguile anyone with a shape-shift that is out of this world