Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

David Foster Wallace

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Alice Munro

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Colin Farrell

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

Cassandra Clare

He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

Gunter Grass

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Ovid

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

George Saintsbury

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

George Bataille

finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love

John Smoltz

When you're put in this position, you have either one of two feelings gut-wrenching or ecstasy ... there's nothing else you can feel,

Thomas Gray

Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, / Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Anja Huizink

Using ecstasy may increase a risk that is already there.

Mark Twain

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glassful of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

George Steiner

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.