T. S. Eliot Quotes

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Success is sweet and treacherous.

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

I love being in Paris.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

Beautiful is dangerous.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

The fish adores the bait.

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

To know Paris is to know a great deal.