“ All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. ”
- Marya Mannes- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
- 352
“ Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 422
“ I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me — I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.7K
“ All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. ”
- Marya Mannes- Copy
- 1.6K
“ But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. ”
- Waiter Rant- Copy
- 3.5K
“ She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.8K
“ He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard. ”
- Herman Kahn- Copy
- 2K
“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.1K
“ You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. ”
- Rae Dawn Chong- Copy
- 3.1K
“ You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body. ”
- Bob Guccione- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French. ”
- Harry Graham- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. ”
- Rosamond Lehmann- Copy
- 693
“ To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 1K
“ It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 913
“ A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ”
- Henri B. Stendhal- Copy
- 116
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