Ray Wise Quotes

The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

I'm a knockout artist.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

Devil, you've got me all in a whirl. I'm wise to your game.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

Being sexy is just one component. It's not a thing I am. It's a thing I can be. It's a side of myself I can tap into, just like I can tap into my funny side, my quirky side or my dramatic side. It's not what I am.

I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.