“An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.” — Honoré de Balzac
“What seduces never seems to be where it is thought.” — Gustavo Cerati
“Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.” — Riccardo Tisci
“Don’t mix wine and women.” — Cesare Pavese
“Every woman has the power to seduce the world with her uniqueness, passion, and creativity.” — Donna Karan
“Perhaps in Venice, you’ll find a man who’ll put jasmine in your maiden-hair, and a pomegranate flower in your navel. Poor little lady Jane!” — D. H. Lawrence
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso
“I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.” ― Chris Ofili
“It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I’m yours forever.” — M.D. Waters
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” — Bill Gates
“Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina, they throw themselves.” — Marlen Dietrich
“Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.” — Publilius Syrus
“Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.” — Rutherford B. Hayes
“The feminine seduces because it is never where it thinks it is, or where it thinks itself.” ― Jean Baudrillard
“His eyes have made love to me all evening.” — Marguerite Gautier
“The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.” ― William Faulkner
“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.” — William Shakespeare
“The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.” — Helen Rowland
“You have to penetrate a woman’s defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.” — Bob Guccione
“It is one of the psychological mistakes that the world makes, to assume that a man whose inclination drives him on to attempt seduction after seduction is a man of more ardent erotic passion than the more constant lover. The very reverse is the case.” ― John Cowper Powys
“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.” — Helen Rowland
“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.” — Dorothy Parker
“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them, he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.” ― James Joyce
“… you should remember that there’s a difference between seducing someone, and being as lewd as possible in their direction.” ― Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Seduce yourself first.” ― Kamand Kojouri
“Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.” — Thucydides
“It’s intelligence mixed with less than innocence, it’s cruelty mixed with a sense of elegance. It’s a trap set for seduction to those that are persuaded by speech.” ― Jose R. Coronado
“Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.” — Stephen Levine
“If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.” — Eliphas Levi
“What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.” — Marlen Dietrich
“Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.” — Lisa Kleypas
“The climax of seduction is to give the illusion that you’re not trying to seduce.” — Mathias Malzieu
“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
“All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.” — Marya Mannes
