Adventuress Quotes

#1. It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.

Anthony Powell

#2. I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Roman Payne

#3. If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.

Deanna Raybourn

#4. I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

Bai Ling

#5. Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

Phyllis McGinley

#6. I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem.

Caitlin Moran

#7. Leda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.'

Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics and democracies. It's much harder to seduce a committee.

Michael Moorcock

#8. Even the dictionary defines adventurer as "a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures," but adventuress is "a woman who uses unscrupulous means in order to gain wealth or social position.

Gloria Steinem

#9. Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her

Victor Hugo

#10. We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

George Carlin

#11. The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it. With his long white beard and stout build, he has to know the effect of wearing a red and white anorak and how inappropriate the whole getup looks in the Mount Zion Cemetery.

Jonathan Tropper

#12. Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Baruch Spinoza

#14. We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

Misha Collins

#15. Death is the opposite of lonely, and lonely is the only thing the janitor owns. It is the only thing that's hers. And that makes loneliness beautiful, out here among the cold and bright beginnings.

Amber Sparks

#16. People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

Gerry Mulligan

#17. Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

Mike Gordon

#18. There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Thomas Merton