(19 quotes found)
“All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”
Marya Mannes
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason”
“All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction”
“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future”
“By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth”
“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality”
“If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.”
“It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.”
“Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier”
“It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.”
