Allures Quotes

#1. Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Epictetus

#2. Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#3. I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

Truman Capote

#4. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

#5. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

Herman Melville

#6. It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Gertrude Stein

#7. We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

Thomas Traherne

#8. By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Richard Ford

#10. Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Blaise Pascal

#11. Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

Charles Seymour Robinson

#12. Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Blaise Pascal

#14. C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

Philip Yancey

#15. It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Zig Ziglar

#16. The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Ntozake Shange

#17. Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

S.I. Hayakawa

#18. Look at that sea, girls
all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.

Pat Conroy

#20. Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.

Radhanath Swami

#21. The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...

Fannie Hurst

#22. The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Mignon McLaughlin

#23. If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case.

Dada Bhagwan

#24. Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most.

Karen White