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Quotes About Attraction

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
~ Charles Dickens
what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me
~ Charles Dickens
What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)
~ Charles Dickens
She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one another when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head. Altogether she was what you would have called provoking, you know; but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory.
~ Charles Dickens
To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.
~ Charles Dickens
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease—a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
~ Charles Dickens
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease—a terrible passing inclination to die of it. And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
~ Charles Dickens
Look here!' she said, striking the scar again, with a relentless hand. 'When he grew into the better understanding of what he had done, he saw it, and repented of it! I could sing to him, and talk to him, and show the ardour that I felt in all he did, and attain with labour to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attracted him. When he was freshest and truest, he loved me. Yes, he did! Many a time, when you were put off with a slight word, he has taken Me to his heart!
~ Charles Dickens
But there have been times since, in my manhood, many times there have been, when I have thought, Is it possible, among the possibilities of hidden things, that in the sudden rashness of the child and her wild look so far off, there was any merciful attraction of her into danger, any tempting her towards him permitted on the part of her dead father, that her life might have a chance of ending that day
~ Charles Dickens
the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.
~ Charles Dickens
Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.
~ Charles Dickens
Love in the Phalanstery is no longer, as it is with us, a recreation which detracts from work; on the contrary it is the soul and the vehicle, the mainspring, of all works and of the whole of universal attraction.
~ Charles Fourier
I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.
~ Charles Frazier
Her persuasive kisses were hard, deep, and intoxicating.
~ Craig D. Slovak
Love turns the sensible stupid and the shy wild.
~ Russian proverb
Love works. Lust plays.
~ Terri Guillemets
Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.
~ Dave Barry
I'm a babe magnet — but the wrong end.
~ Author Unknown
She smelled Roy before she saw him. She liked to imagine that it was the perfume of his good heart.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. And I had fallen in love with Tahiti before ever I had set foot in it.
~ Alec Waugh, 1930
Disneyland is the only people trap operated by a mouse.
~ Author Unknown
When gravity calls, something falls.
~ J.L.W. Brooks
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled...
~ Harlan Ellison, 1968
My sexual preference is often.
~ Author Unknown