A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had a big fight about how to make something come into the real, to make it physical. It sounds really antique,… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are… — Iris Smyles Copy Share Image
Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
