The Devil is a woman.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
All women seem by nature to be coquettes.
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)
But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.
