Quotes about Fascinating
so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.
— Dorothy Sayers
When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.
— Oscar Wilde
Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees...
— Oscar Wilde
Everything about her was so… delightfully unexpected. And he could listen to that drawl of hers all night.
— Denise Hunter
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
— JRR Tolkien
There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly.
— Frederick Buechner
Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.
— John Piper
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
— Oscar Wilde
The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.
— Maya Angelou
One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.
— Oscar Wilde
She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence.
— Oscar Wilde
The reason history is fascinating is because people in other times and places are so like us. The reason history is difficult is because people in other times and places are so different from us. History is, to that extent, like marriage
— NT Wright