Quotes about Seduction

1. “Seduction was both a science and art, a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.” — Dan Simmons

2. “A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.” — Talleyrand

3. “If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it’s a bit ugly to use your charisma.” — Jonathan King

4. “A woman laughing is a woman conquered.” — Napoleon

5. “Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.” — Jules Renard

6. “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.” — Voltaire

7. “Pursuit and seduction are the essence of s**uality. It’s part of the sizzle.” — Camille Paglia

8. “Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do; seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.” — Benjamin T. Russell

9. “You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.” — Rae Dawn Chong

10. “A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run — sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.” — Helen Rowland

11. “A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it’s a formidable weapon of seduction.” ― Dree Hemingway

12. “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” — Marilyn Monroe

13. “When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.” ― Melina Marchett

14. “The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.” — Marlen Dietrich

15. “All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.” — Marya Mannes

16. “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

17. “The climax of seduction is to give the illusion that you’re not trying to seduce.” — Mathias Malzieu

18. “Seduction is always more singular and sublime than s** and it commands the higher price.” ― Jean Baudrillard

19. “Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.” — Louis Schwartzberg

20. “Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.” — Lisa Kleypas

21. “What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.” — Marlen Dietrich

22. “If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.” — Eliphas Levi

23. “Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.” — Stephen Levine

24. “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

25. “There’s always truth in seduction. That’s why it works.” — Zoe Archer

26. “Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.” — Thucydides

27. “Seduce yourself first.” ― Kamand Kojouri

28. “… you should remember that there’s a difference between seducing someone, and being as lewd as possible in their direction.” ― Eliezer Yudkowsky

29. “A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.” — Mason Cooley

30. “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

31. “His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.” — Dorothy Parker

32. “Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.” — Helen Rowland

33. “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

34. “You have to penetrate a woman’s defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.” — Bob Guccione

35. “The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.” — Helen Rowland

36. “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.” — William Shakespeare

37. “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

38. “His eyes have made love to me all evening.” — Marguerite Gautier

39. “The feminine seduces because it is never where it thinks it is, or where it thinks itself.” ― Jean Baudrillard

40. “Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

41. “Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror.” ― Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

42. “Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.” — Publilius Syrus

43. “Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina, they throw themselves.” — Marlen Dietrich

44. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” — Bill Gates

45. “Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I’m yours forever.” — M.D. Waters

46. “It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.” — Mignon McLaughlin

47. “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

48. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

49. “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

50. “Every woman has the power to seduce the world with her uniqueness, passion, and creativity.” — Donna Karan

51. “Don’t mix wine and women.” — Cesare Pavese

52. “Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.” — Riccardo Tisci

53. “What seduces never seems to be where it is thought.” — Gustavo Cerati

54. “An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.” — Honoré de Balzac

55. “There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn’t exist for men. A woman can be s**y, charming, witty, or shy with her shoes.” — Christian Louboutin

56. “Men are like that, they can resist the sound argument, yet yield to a glance.” — Honoré de Balzac

57. “Man proposes, woman forecloses.” — Minna Antrim

58. “I don’t use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.” — Ursula Andress

59. “You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.” — Karen Quan

60. “I find the fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.” — Christina Aguilera

61. “The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast.” — John Keats

62. “One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.” — La Rochefoucauld

63. “Seduction is an art known only to the best of the artistes.” ― Avijeet Das

64. “I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.” — Rajneesh

65. “I suppose that romantic love was invented as a brilliant means of seduction.” — Sigmund Freud

66. “But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.” — Mitch Albom

67. “Faint heart never won fair lady.” — English proverb

68. “The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a sign of experience.” — Ninon de Lenclos

69. “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” — International proverb

70. “Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there’s the seduction part, of course, s** is a big part of the vampire thing.” ― Jonny Lee Miller

71. “The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, ‘Gee, you are really special’ to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.” — Alison Gopnik

72. “Make sensuality your power base.” ― Lebo Grand

73. “True love is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.” — Paulo Coelho

74. “S**uality is extremely disruptive. The insecurities and emotions it stirs up can often cut short a relationship that would otherwise be deeper and longer-lasting.” — Robert Greene

75. “Don’t lose yourself in a man, that’ll make you lose your pizzazz indefinitely. Instead, lose yourself in your own sensuality and you’ll forever enchant him.” ― Lebo Grand

76. “A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.” — Anthony Anaxagorou

77. “When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century.” —Anonymous

78. “The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

79. “As far as I can make out, women’s friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You’d think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they’re together.” — Marilyn Monroe

80. “The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.” — Robin Sharma

81. “Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.” — Jean Baudrillard

82. “A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.” — Mason Cooley

83. “I was trying to seduce him just by being physically near him. Like, seduction by osmosis. It works in movies constantly.” ― Katie Heaney

84. “Who would willingly walk the path of love if they knew its cost without first being seduced by its promise?” ― Donna Goddard

85. “My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse, and entertain.” — Helmut Newton

86. “Seduction brings forth death.” — Monaluna

87. “Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” — Rose Franken

88. “To find and keep love today, you have to learn the mystery of seduction.” ― Lebo Grand

89. “Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.” — Anita Roddick

90. “When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.” — George Washington

91. “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” — George Bernard Shaw

92. “What will seduce a person is an effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.” — Robert Greene

93. “…in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form supersedes content.” — Jesse Kellerman

94. “I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.” — Anna Held

95. “You turn me on from across the room, and I’ll completely melt if you come any closer.” — Crystal Woods

96. “At the core level, seduction comes down to selling. You’re trying to convince a woman that you are a hot product she has got to have! You’re selling yourself.” ― Cage J. Madison

97. “The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

98. “To lack confidence in a man is the most wasteful exercise. A woman is not as weak a creature as one presumes. I must tell you that there exists no man who can seduce a disinclined woman. And I cannot omit the fact that if the woman is determined to find love, no amount of policing can keep her from falling into that state.” ― Mukta Singh-Zocchi

99. “Everything you do seduces me. All you need to do is breathe and I would do anything for you.“”— Ashley March

100. “Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very s**y or just really weird if it has some surreal element in it.” — Eric Drooker

101. “I could not help liking this girl more and more. I’ve never met a woman who was the one initiating her own seduction. Directing it even.” ― Kailin Gow

102. “Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don’t think it’s something tricky ― it’s being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.” — Miuccia Prada

103. “Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.” — Paul Bourget

104. “Beauty is a unique predator: we crave to become its prey.” ― Talismanist Giebra

105. “The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game ― and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.” ― Jennifer Birkett

106. “It’s very easy to believe someone when they are telling you what it is you want to hear.” ― Kate McGahan

107. “This is a place full of seduction and coquetry, rich in eroticism.” — Catherine Deneuve

108. “All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.” — Cleopatra

109. “Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no ‘erogenous zones’ (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove, and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.” ― Roland Barthes

110. “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

111. “Common good girl, be bad.” — Nicki Elson

112. “There is no longer any happiness for me, no longer any peace but in the possession of this woman whom I love and hate with equal fury. I cannot tolerate my life until hers is again mine to dispose of. Then, contented and calm, I shall see her in turn buffeted by the storms that assail me now, and I shall stir up a thousand others too. I want hope and fear, faith and suspicion, all the evils devised by hate and all the blessings conferred by love, to fill her heart and to succeed one another there at my will.” ― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

113. “Nothing is more charming than style and confidence.” ― Wayne Chirisa

114. “Teach me to stop loving you. Teach me to hate you. Otherwise, I fear will never leave me.” — Elisia Blade

115. “Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.” ― Margaret Way

116. “Sometimes the only way to hunt somebody is to pretend to be a prey.” ― Talismanist Giebra

117. “Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.” — Elizabeth Smart

118. “Mastering the art of seduction gives one great power, and like any power, it’s to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams.” ― Mike Norton

119. “Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.” — Andrea Dworkin

120. “I don’t know what s** appeal is. I don’t think you can have s** 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 s** appeal.” — Omar Sharif