Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

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

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

Beauty draws more than oxen.

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.

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

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.

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

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

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I want to look alluring.

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.

Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes.