Seduction

"Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction."

"Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm."

"Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us."

"When Jimmy Walker was minority leader of the New York legislature, there was a censorship fight on the floor of the House. A powerful group of pious bluenoses wanted to bar from circulation good books that dared to mention certain well-known facts of life. The bluenoses said the books were indecent, bawdy, lascivious and would lead their young and innocent daughters astray. Jimmy stood the debate as long as he could, then he said, "I have been around a good deal, but I have never heard of a woman's being seduced by a book." That killed the censorship bill."

"Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where s might despair."

"I like clothes and I like seduction in general, but I am like that with everybody."

"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."

"Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you."

"Your greatest power in seduction is your ability to turn away, to make others come after you, delaying their satisfaction."

"Seduction is a game of psychology, not beauty, and it is within the grasp of any person to become a master at the game. All that is required is that you look at the world."

"Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves."

"In the game of seduction, There is only one rule: Never fall in love."

"Moderates and liberals are not immune to the theory's seductive charms—especially when it gives them a chance to lecture others on their failings."

"But ne'er to a seductive lay let faith be given; Nor deem that "light that leads astray" is light from Heaven."