Quotes About Fascination

Papa, Alessandro said, his eyes closing. She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

What's left of her former glories, her days of empire, are in ruins, but those ruins continue to enchant us. You fall into a trance here.

Who can really describe why they fell in love?

She had seen no one who had so touched her. But she was alive to the romance of the thing, and was in love with the idea of being in love.

Mr. Jones had never seen the lady's face. He longed to know what were the features of the woman who had been so blind — if indeed that story were true.

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There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;

Genealogy was her favorite insanity.

The camps have a fascination in their revoltingness.

La regina avrebbe dovuto sapere come comportarsi: in fondo era già stata sposata con un uomo anziano in cattivo stato di salute. La sua abilità di infermiera costituiva parte del fascino che esercitava su Enrico VIII.

The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the secret of fascination. And in his book, St Augustine does not doubt the reality of this fascination for one moment.

Just when you least expect it, --- enkantos will always have a way of surprising you.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

As a matter of interest," he said

excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex…there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.