Quotes About Fascinating

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.

In literature mere egotism is delightful.

I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.

She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence. 

Ones own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees...

Lord Henry, you are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing.

One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.

The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense.

It's us that's really amazing.

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

the historian records the exceptional because it is interesting—because it is exceptional.

The portraits were monochrome photographs of men in dark suits and ties, four very sober gentlemen whose lapels were decorated with small metal emblems of the kind her father sometimes wore. Though her mother had told her that the cubes contained ghosts, the ghosts of her father's evil ancestors, Kumiko found them more fascinating than frightening.

If you weren't such a great man, you'd be a terrible bore.

Public opinion can often be swayed by emotion with little regard for facts. If the story is fascinating enough, facts may not matter to those hearing it" -Mr. Khatchadourian