Richard Le Gallienne 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.

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

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

I've always had an air of mystery.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

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.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

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

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.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

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

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.