Alluring Quote by Claudius Claudianus

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

— Archibald MacLeish

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

— Francis Quarles

“Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;…

— William Shakespeare

“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature’s revenge on the outraged…

— Marie Corelli

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

— Juvenal

“...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you…

— Paul Theroux

“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes, bloody, bruised…

— Jerzy Kosinski

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more…

— Hannah More

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you…

— Paul Theroux

Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays…

— Shaw Neilson