Quotes About Attraction

The next year had seen them drop into the crazy-obsessive love spiral in which they'd break up and then not be able to stay away from each other, until one time she was able to stay away, and that was all she wrote.

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things. (From The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing)

When men of a certain sort, ladies, are in love, though they see the hook and the string, and the whole apparatus with which they are to be taken, they gorge the bait nevertheless—they must come to it—they must swallow it—and are presently struck and landed gasping.

For she had eyes and chose me.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

I'll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you did My heart fly to your service, there resides to make me slave to it, and for your sake Am I this patient log-man.

And now, tell me, for which of my bad qualities did you first fall in love with me?' 'All of them together,' she said. 'They maintained such a well organised state of evil that they wouldn't allow any good quality to intermingle with them

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.

Young men's love, then, lies      Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Now Romeo is beloved, and loves again, Alike bewitched by the charm of looks.

I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love – and so I take my leave, In resolution as I swore before. -Hortensio

A faint mist of perspiration clung to her skin like aphrodisia

If I am no longer able to function with you, it is, you understand, due to no lack of virility but because almost everything about you, especially your body, leaves me totally without sensation... I

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.

You really think love messes everything up? Sure do. That's what's so compelling about it.

Il vestito era quello che aveva trovato in fondo al secondo baule e che fin dall'inizio l'aveva attirata come la mela aveva attirato Eva.

Women never fundamentally disliked a little rough treatment. (More than one had told him it was their secret dream.)