Allure Quotes

• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

  Socrates

  Life, Beauty, Kindness

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• The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Knives, Hollywood, Behinds

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• I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

  Diana Vreeland

  Memories, Thinking, Scent

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• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Eye, Indulge In, Sirens

  Gertrude Stein (1954). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930”

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• The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Years, Data, America

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• Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

  William Moulton Marston

  Beautiful, Strong Women, Character

  "The Secret History of Wonder Woman". Book by Jill Lepore, 2014.

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• Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.

  John Travolta

  Creating, Years, People

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• The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Movie, Real, People

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• Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.

  Rumi

  Running, Spiritual, Doe

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• Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

  Keith Donohue

  Laughter, Mean, Eye

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.58, Random House

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• Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held

  Diana Vreeland

  Opposites, Lunch, People

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• Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

  Michel Faber

  Danger, Threat

  Michel Faber (2001). “Under the Skin”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

  Blaise Pascal

  Amusement, Deceiving, Graves

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.94

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• If you're an open book, there's no allure.

  Alexander McQueen

  Book, Open Book, Ifs

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

  Brian Swimme

  Passion, Pursuit Of Happiness, Unique

  "The universe is a green dragon". Book by Brian Swimme, www.context.org. 1984.

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• Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fiction, Fables, Instruction

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• By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Bait, Recess

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.40, Bantam Classics

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• We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

  Thomas Traherne

  Knows

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure.

  Christina Aguilera

  Cures

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• I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Use, Way

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Grieving, Worship You, Body

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• The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Sex, Drama

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Crafts, Austerity

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• When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

  Alexander McQueen

  Book, Night, Giving

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: www.ebony.com

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