seductive influence Quotes

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.