Quotes About Attraction

I would never date a guy with short hair.

Give a man a chance, and he'll be so casual that he won't bathe, shave, or comb his hair. He'll just depend on his animal magnetism to get him by.

I want people to come to town and come by the shop and buy a T-shirt, then go by the bar-and-grill and have a hamburger or go hear some music. I want to be a destination - the destination.

We even fall in love with love.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

All love is socioeconomic. It's the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

She's the most beautiful and smart woman I've ever met," he liked to tell his friends after they had stopped loving each other.

I moved closer to him, attracted, fascinated: in the midst of such passion, death itself became appealing...

Raoul suffered, for she was very beautiful and he was shy and he dared not confess his love, even to himself.

Tell me, Little Bao, have you ever gotten close to woman?' 'Well. . . ' 'Close enough to smell her?' 'No.' 'Ah! Even when they stink they smell like heaven! Women are something else? They're. . . they're magic!

Work in the kitchen of the inn had provided her with many opportunities to snatch a mouthful of pastry or a choice potato dumpling or a half stein of dark beer, and she had availed herself of most of them—with the result that she possessed a lush and blooming figure of the sort that appeals to men like Lame Hans

Lust is addicted to novelty.

Who may be a real fool unless he is in love?

Sports evolved through sexual selection, but they are not crude sexual displays.

People act differently when they're in love with different people. We tend to match our expressed interests and preferences to those of a desired individual.

Language lets us learn about potential mates much more efficiently and interactively than any other species can.

The discriminatory nature of sexual choice undermines all egalitarian Utopias. Women might like the idea of all men being able to have equal amounts of sex, but no individual woman would be willing to forgo her power of sexual choice to allow an unattractive, unfit man to copulate with her.

Women differ in the exact male height they prefer, but almost always prefer a man taller than themselves. Different ethnic groups may prefer different facial features, but all prefer faces that are symmetrical and averagely shaped for their population. If you don't look for the universals of human beauty at the right level of description, you will not find them.

Each trait that we consider sexually attractive already summarizes a huge amount of information about an individual's genes, body, and mind.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Every star has its own orbit; and between it and its nearest neighbor there is not only a powerful attraction but an infinite distance. When the attraction becomes stronger than the distance the two do not embrace: they crash together in ruin.

What could two men, so different from each other, see in this brown patch, as Mary called hereself? It was certainly not her plainness that attracted them (and let all plain young ladies be warned against the dangerous encouragement given them by Society to confinde in their want of beauty)

Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman--something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.

What could two men, so different from each other, see in this "brown patch," as Mary called herself? It was certainly not her plainness that attracted them (and let all plain young ladies be warned against the dangerous encouragement given them by Society to confide in their want of beauty).