Quotes about seduction

"Man proposes, woman forecloses."

Antrim, Minna on seduction   

"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."

Byron, Lord on seduction   

"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."

Crisp, Quentin on seduction
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"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine."

Dworkin, Andrea on seduction
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"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."

Fielding, Henry on seduction   

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"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?"

Goldsmith, Oliver on seduction
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"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."

Graham, Harry on seduction   

"You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body."

Guccione, Bob on seduction
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"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"

Hampton, Christopher on seduction   

"The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them."

Lehmann, Rosamond on seduction
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"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle."

Paglia, Camille on seduction
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"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."

Powell, Anthony on seduction   

"She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

Shakespeare, William on seduction
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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."

Stendhal, Henri B. on seduction   

"When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century."

Unknown, Source on seduction
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