Beguiling Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smee
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong. — Trevor Baylis
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage… — Ezra Taft Benson
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something… — Elizabeth McCracken
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is… — David Gemmell
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. — Jan Morris
Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky.… — Hazel Hawke
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-personÂ narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly originalÂ child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation toÂ readers… — Katharine Weber
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle… — Sue Monk Kidd
An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple,… — Leatrice Eiseman
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of… — Michelle Huneven
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… — Mark Twain
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. — Heinrich Heine
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath… — Kurt Vonnegut
The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with… — David Sedaris
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of… — Leonard Cohen
I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my… — Lori Lansens
Whatâ€™s your name, lad?â€ â€œNewton. Newton Pulsifer.â€ â€œLUCIFER? Whatâ€™s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the… — Neil Gaiman
I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly… — Anne Rice

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