Abbi Glines Quotes

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

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.

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power is seductive.

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

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'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

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

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

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

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.