Virginia Postrel Quotes

I think it's important to have mystique.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.

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.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

I've never really known what glamour is.

I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim,' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy.

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.