Seduction

(106 votes)   He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(92 votes)   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
1908-, British Author

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(83 votes)   She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(71 votes)   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
1905-, British Novelist

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(70 votes)   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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(68 votes)   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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(67 votes)   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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(59 votes)   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 Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(58 votes)   The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Rosamond Lehmann
1901-1990, British Novelist

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