Mark Twain Quotes

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

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.

It's a great feeling to be wanted, but it's more exciting to be inaccessible.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

My goal is always to leave you slightly wanting more.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.

If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure.

It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.