Quotes about Fascination
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known. And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, ladylike, critical; or ravishing, romantic.
— Virginia Woolf
Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.
— Charles Dickens
I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'
— Melissa McCarthy
Get interested in something! Absolutely enthralled in something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
— Oscar Wilde
A burnt child loves the fire.
— Oscar Wilde
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
— Oscar Wilde
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
— Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
— Oscar Wilde
What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.
— Cormac McCarthy