Jean Cocteau Quotes

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

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

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

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

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

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.

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

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.

She has the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe.

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.

Maybe I am a bit of a siren.

To me, sex appeal means that when an actress is on the screen, she just engulfs the whole screen.

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.

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 draws more than oxen.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

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.