Keith Sweat Quotes

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

Sometimes it's nice as an actress just to keep something back about yourself so there's a little bit of mystery.

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.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.

He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

I think that it's sexier not to show everything. I feel that people's imaginations can do way more.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.

I'm actually not star-struck... I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.

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.