intellectual allure Quotes

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.