Top 119 Alluring Quotes & Sayings

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans.

I want to look alluring.

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

I think the story of DiMaggio was alluring precisely for its impossibility.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful - this I find terribly alluring and captivating.

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.

The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.

I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy.

A little scorn is alluring.

I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be... vampires are very alluring.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.

Happiness is alluring but ungraspable, which is perhaps its ultimate appeal. Who'd really want to have it all the time?

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

The freedom of just going into the booth and spitting and freestyling to release whatever was on your mind was alluring to me.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

Saturn is such an alluring photographic target.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Why do women have to face comments like, 'You are wearing short clothes; you are alluring and inviting men?'

The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.

The smile that illumines the features of beauty, When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow, To vie with the softness of beauty in tears. The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving; Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears; But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling, And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.