#seduction

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#curiosity #knowledge #seduction #vice #love

The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#manipulation #seduction #love

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#fear #men #molest #seduction #sex

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough. ↗

— Rhyannon Byrd

#seduction

Like sex, seduction, and sin had decided to get it on and Cole Carson was the result. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#seduction

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#seduction #seduction

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night? ↗

— Jim Morrison

#cities #seduction #seduction

Oh my God, I sent a picture of my boobs to Jim," I moaned as a fresh wave of nausea rolled through me. "You also threw up in the emergency room parking lot, called Drew and told him you were the Donkey Punch Dick Queen and filled out a Last Will and Testament on a Burger King napkin and then asked the drive-thru worker to notarize it. ↗

— Tara Sivec

#seduction

Aaarrggg, ahoy me matey, thars a great grand vagina over yonder." Penises talk like pirates when I'm drunk. ↗

— Tara Sivec

#seduction-and-snacks #tara-sivec #seduction