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Quotes About Allure

A coisa mais banal se torna deliciosa se a escondermos
~ Oscar Wilde
She was one of those women who kind of numb a fellow's faculties. She made me feel as if I were ten years old and had been brought into the drawing room in my Sunday clothes to say how-d'you-do.
~ P. G. Woedhouse
symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature. Many of the early philosophers, artists, and authors signed their work with their own unique symbol or monogram rather than their name. This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.
~ Dan Brown
Wanda Bone Bouvier had that thing that makes a hound leap against its cage. It ws a quality that was partly a bonus from nature and partly learned from cheesecake calendars and Tanya Tucker albums.
~ Daniel Woodrell
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
~ Mark Twain
You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.
~ Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
The air smelt of booze, sweat and cheap perfume - redolent of sex and danger. There was a kind of frontier recklessness about the atmosphere, Bond thought, and recognised its allure.
~ William Boyd
the most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
There's nothin' more dangerous than a boy with charm.
~ Christina Aguilera
She is a double danger—there is the danger of meeting her, and the danger of becoming her. Does the nightmare of her belong to everyone, or just to me?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The men look at Aunt Mia the way I might look at a hot fudge sundae in the hours between lunch and dinner. You know, when you're not sure if it's a good idea to go ahead -- you're interested beyond a shadow of a doubt, but you wonder if it might turn out to be a little too much for you. Men seem to realize that Aunt Mia's already making the most of herself.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence. Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms. Woman well knows her influence there. You will see it in her triumphant smiles.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But you know how there's a certain kind of person - and it's different for everyone - but suddenly when you see them your eye just snags on them, you get caught and you can't look away, and you're ten times more awake than you were a moment ago, and it's like you're a harp string and somebody just plucked you?
~ Lev Grossman
Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
~ Loretta Young
Innovation and its allure can be dangerous. It can draw you away from the user, from the intended outcome, and may be the ultimate demise of otherwise great intentions.
~ Mark Brand
For the record, you are a very, very good bad influence.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
She's like a bonfire on the darkest night of the year, a bonfire on a prairie in a snowstorm. You can't help yourself, you're going to turn in her direction, and she's doing nothing to make this happen.
~ Jeanne Ray
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
~ Keith Sweat
Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes.
~ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
You Cannot Escape Beauty And You Cannot Stop Being Attracted To It, Because Beauty Allures. Beauty Seduces. Beauty Wants You To Come Closer.
~ Unknown
Tempted by the names
~ Paul Theroux
Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.
~ Paulo Coelho
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.
~ Paulo Coelho