If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
I don't need much coaxing.
You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.
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.
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.
Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
Maybe I am a bit of a siren.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
