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Quotes About Seduction

Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got 'em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could too and if I had something to push between those pearly teeth I'd be first in line.
~ James Purdy
You can be seduced to do this," Zimbardo added. "It's easy for people to delude themselves into thinking that they will be the ones who will do it the right way. Self-delusion is a powerful force for evil.
~ James Risen
A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print? In the same way, we never thought to ask, How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?
~ Doris Lessing
She blushed. I love it when women blush, especially those big butch girls who know you want them. And I wanted her. I did. I wanted her. But she was a difficult woman, wouldn't let me give her a backrub, read her palm, or sew up the tear in her jeans—all those ritual techniques Southern femmes have employed in the seduction of innocent butch girls.
~ Dorothy Allison
That night at Dumbarton was a classic of its kind. She had hopes still, I think, of enslaving me despite myself with her charms. And I probably thought the same. We both found we were mistaken. It had its moments; but she has the mind and morals of a jungle cat. She didn't enjoy meeting … another of the same.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
If you had asked me, I could have told you, without putting yourself to the trouble of experiment, that no one, saint or sinner, is likely to seduce Francis against his will. Unfortunately.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Your husband appears to possess an uncanny gift for seducing his enemies.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Do you think he will notice?' Danny said. 'I sometimes feel if I placed myself nude on the floor between the Voevoda and one of his meetings, he wouldn't even walk round me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Yet no woman had ever so stirred his blood; she had only to look or speak to make the very bones shake in his body.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Il muro. Il muro sfidava l'immaginazione, la seduceva e la vinceva. Il muro era così inconcepibilmente vasto e perpendicolare che la sua cima, la sua base e i suoi lati superavano la capacità umana di vedere. Sarebbe bastato l'immenso senso di vertigine che dava, per uccidere un uomo.
~ Douglas Adams
love can be the most enthralling of demons. 3
~ Douglas Clegg
Everybody has a 'gripping stranger' in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying 'Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,' you'd follow them.
~ Douglas Coupland
You know what, sweetheart? If you ever feel even slightly inclined to come into my office and seduce me while I'm writing, you should act on it. Immediately. Even if I'm on the phone with my editor. Even if my parents are there. Even if I happen, for whatever reason, to be hosting a meeting with the pope. I will stop the discussion, and I will pleasure you right then and there, in a wholly spectacular fashion.
~ Aimee Molloy
Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction.
~ Al Ries
Nephew, there ain't a man alive that can stand up ta the power of that little cooter. The holt it has on a man is unbreakable. It'll bring a strong man ta his knees. Read your history. Look at the kings an' kingdoms that have fallen ta that little split tail. Prentice Ritter
~ Alan Geoffrion
I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
~ Omar Sharif
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
~ Gad Elmaleh
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
~ David Byrne
I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.
~ Gerard Way
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
~ Damien Hirst
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
~ Henry Fielding
Honestly, I wish I could stay. For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
~ Rachel Hartman
I'll never forget sitting with you and hearing you whisper, "Find someone to take back to our hotel room with us.
~ Rachel Kramer Bussel
Can I buy you a drink?" was most often accompanied by "I'm a banker" or "I'm just here on business." The latter was code for "I've got a wife at home but we can make some sort of arrangement.
~ Rachel Kramer Bussel