Libba Bray Quotes

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

Everybody wants to get into the act!

I'm not honest, but you're interesting!

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

preety girls behave best when you ignore them

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.