Elinor Glyn Quotes

To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.

She looked like green rhubarb juice, and he had the expression of 'Damn!' all over him.

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

Do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

a woman has "it" when she exhibits a "magnetism" which is irresistible, "unorthodox" in her ways.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even five, I would snap my fingers at all men, and say, 'No, I make my life as I choose, and shall cultivate knowledge and books, and indulge in beautiful ideas of honor and exalted sentiments, and perhaps one day succumb to a noble passion.

The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God's sky with the stars in it.

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.