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Man proposes, woman forecloses.
-Minna Antrim
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Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
-John H. Aughey
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
-Quentin Crisp
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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
-Andrea Dworkin
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.
-Harry Graham
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You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.
-Bob Guccione
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
-Christopher Hampton
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The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
-Rosamond Lehman
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
-Camille Anna Paglia
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Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
-Anthony Powell
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
-William Shakespeare
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
-Henri B. Stendhal
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
-Charles Sumner
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
-Jonathan Swift
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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.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Seduction
