Quotes of: Femme-fatale Keyword

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

I See You Everywhere

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Sathya Sai Baba

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

David Viscott

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Hervey Allen

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts. Winston Churchill

H.A. Corby

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

John Stuart Mill

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Louis Finkelstein

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Lewis Hallam

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Terry Pratchett

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Walter Legge

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Wendell Phillips

(...) il fallait séparer nos souffles, s'écarter, s'espacer, se lever, se dédoubler, et c'est toujours autant de perdu. Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié. - Est-ce que je suis envahissante? - Terriblement, lorsque...

Clair de Femme

Il y a des couples heureux, des moitiés qui se respectent mutuellement. D'ailleurs, j'ai eu beau ne pas me séparer de ma femme et souffrir de ses empiétements, sur divers plans je me suis toujours conduit comme un célibataire.

Marcel Jouhandeau

Rien n'est plus beau qu'un corps nu. Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.

Yves Saint Laurent

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

The Last Guardian

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Down and Out in Paris and London

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Pauline Kael

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

The Once and Future King

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Ed Markey

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

Helena Bonham Carter