Seduction Quotes - Page 4

• I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Witty, Power

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

  Christopher Moore

  Girl, Mean, Awkward

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• I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.  How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.  How you can fall in love with the light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Falling In Love, Home, Light

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• A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Humility, Temptation

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Self

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.230, Hackett Publishing

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• It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Noble

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.586, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.

  Morrie Ryskind

  Men, Feet, Romance

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• I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

  Mae West

  Flirting, Men, Uniforms

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• I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Iron, Needs

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• Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

  Tibullus

  Wind, Sea, Land

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• It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

  Nicole Jordan

  Lightning, Force, Difficult

  Nicole Jordan (2010). “To Tame a Dangerous Lord”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

  John Donne

  Sex, Hands, Roving

  c.1595 Elegies, no.19,'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

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• The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Confused, Lying

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• Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Lying, Eye, Focus

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.

  Fanny Burney

  War, Eye, Past

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.5192, Delphi Classics

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• Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction...but they feel no shame.

  Fabio Novembre

  Sex, Ideas, Two

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• To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

  Susan Sontag

  Taken, Found, Camps

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.

  Brigid Schulte

  Technology, Addiction, Pleasure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Used, Form

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• I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

  Anna Funder

  Thinking, Light, People

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• Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

  David Liss

  Clever, Fun, Reading

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• 'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

  John Gay

  Art, Firsts, Taught

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.6

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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.

  Anthony Powell

  Hands, Dexterity, Emotion

  Anthony Powell (2014). “Afternoon Men: A Novel”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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