Poppy Z. Brite Quotes

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

The sense of power is as strong a principle in the mind as the love of pleasure.

Power is seductive.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.

You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

I just want to be powerful and in charge, or crazy and in charge. Say anything I want, and still know everybody loves you. Or, you know, like Jessica Lange. She's not old-looking, but she's older and she's working on that America Horror stuff. Wicked.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.