Femme Fatale/Quotes

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

—Calo, The Godfather

Kissing her, I think of the cold laws of cause and effect.

—Max Payne

Daphne: It's not like men have never used sex to get what they want.

Frasier: How can we possibly use sex to get what we want? Sex is what we want!

—Frasier, "Sleeping With The Enemy"

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

—Rick Blaine, Casablanca

All she lacked to be the next Calvin Klein girl was the blankly stupid model look in her eyes. Give her credit: Senna's eyes were alive, focused, intense, glittering. Greedy.

—April O'Brien, describing her half-sister, Enter the Enchanted

Belladonna, n.

In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two languages.

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"She was bad. She was dangerous. I wouldn't trust her any farther than I could throw her. But she was my kind of woman."

—The Band Wagon, "The Girl Hunt"

"Maneater, make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want more of her love."

—Nelly Furtado, Maneater.

Here she comes
You better watch your step
She's gonna break your heart in two, it's true
It's not hard to realize
Just look into her false colored eyes

She'll build you up just to put you down, what a clown

—"Femme Fatale" by The Velvet Underground