Quotes for All
I was up for Michael Corleone in ‘The Godfather,’ but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in ‘Pretty Woman’ held a bizarre allure for me. But, it’s silly to look back with regret. Eric Stoltz
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress’d on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Erasmus … Read more
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. Epictetus
I’ve never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! … The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I’ve never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman. Emma Watson
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself. Elizabeth Samet
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy … Read more
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty’s love. Edmund Spenser
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It’s like a memory … it pervades. Diana Vreeland