Best Femme Fatale Quotes

#1. I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#3. I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!

Bonnie Bedelia

#4. I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#5. When I was young, I used to watch a lot of old movies and read a lot of books, and I was always amazed at how every one of them had some helpless damsel who was oh so happy to fall into the hero's arms, and I'm not that kind of girl"- Yvonne

Alexander Ferrick

#6. Blondes are the girlfriend, brunete is the femme fatale, but the heroine, she's the redheaded girl.

Marion Roach

#7. She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me.

M.K. Williams

#8. To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

Alice Munro

#9. Splat. Without thought, she'd thrown mud all over his face. So much for femme fatale.
He sputtered in disbelief, then roared, What the ever-livin' feck -

Kresley Cole

#10. I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

Sigourney Weaver

#11. She looked hot enough to catch fire, but too lazy to do anything but just lie there and smoke.

Gil Brewer

#12. She looked slick as hell; polished, neat, and with that feminine deadliness that can drive you nuts. They work on it till they get complete control of the situation. There's no use trying to break them down. They've made it.

Gil Brewer

#13. I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Salma Hayek

#14. I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.

Clifton Adams

#15. Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered.

James J. Caterino

#16. I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

Jasper Carrott

#17. I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

Diana Quick

#18. Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven

James Ellroy

#19. Velva's face glowed in the streetlight. "Sir Sun, don't you see? I am your violent violet. And you are mine.

Mav Skye

#20. If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

Donna Lynn Hope

#21. I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

Lana Del Rey

#22. For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

Tom Ford

#23. A femme fatale and a warrior princess.

Cassandra Clare

#24. When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious

Rochelle Magee

#25. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

#26. Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

Charles Nodier

#27. Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls evidently didn't count in this little subdivision of the underworld; a miscalculation many a shady character has made.

Cornell Woolrich

#28. My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie.

Meaghan Rath

#29. I have a present for you."
He raised his eye brows. "I don't like your surprises."
"You'll like this one. Close your eyes.

Mav Skye

#30. I'm not really a femme fatale.

Carla Bruni