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Quotes About Seduction

Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong.
~ Richard Russo
He jumped from the bed, but paused when he got to the sunporch. As Miranda saw him turn to look back at her, her whole body felt warm. "What is it?" she asked him, embarrassed now. But Etienne didn't look embarrassed at all. "It's good, cher. " He winked. "And next time, it'll be even better.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Glasul m?rii este seduc?tor; f?r? s? se opreasc? vreodat?, È™uÈ™otind, protestând, murmurând, invitând sufletul s? r?t?ceasc? un r?stimp în abisul singur?t??ii, s? se piard? în labirintul contempl?rii de sine. Glasul m?rii vorbeÈ™te sufletului nostru. Mângâierea m?rii este senzual?, înv?luind trupul în îmbr??iÈ™area ei dulce È™i intim?.
~ Kate Chopin
odalisque, prompting us to call him Dingolion and Dandelingo
~ Kate Christensen
Seduction is nothing more than knowing that you want someone and then showing them, very gradually, very deliberately, that you do. It's the way you do it – reveal, tease, ignore, take it back – that makes it seduction.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.
~ Kelley Armstrong
They say he's something of a Romeo." "Romeo?" I sputtered a laugh. "Seriously?" "You know what I mean, Maya. He likes girls." "Which, all things considered, is good.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I ran my tongue along the top of his underwear, letting it slide underneath. Then i shifted my body forward, lips moving back up his chest, until i was straddling him again.
~ Kelley Armstrong
But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce.
~ Ken Follett
He stared at her bare body, but she no longer felt embarrassed—his look inflamed her like an intimate caress.
~ Ken Follett
She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can't tell which.
~ Ken Kesey
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
~ William Shakespeare
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
~ William Shakespeare
Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person
~ Madonna Ciccone
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
~ Rachel Hartman
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
~ Tammy Bruce
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
~ Tori Amos
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
~ Harry Truman
RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.
~ Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
~ Dorothy Day, Therese