Quotes about Seduction
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
- Ted Dekker
But there are many other voices, voices that are loud, full of promises and very seductive, pushing me to do everything possible to gain acceptance. They deny loudly that love is a totally free gift. It is not very hard for me to know when this is happening. Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home.
- Henri Nouwen
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.
- Marcus Aurelius
call attention of course to the breasts. Some of these women have been within inches of getting Ed to put his head down on their chests, right there in Sally's living room. Watching all this out of the corners of her eyes while serving the liqueurs, Sally feels the Aztec rise within her. Trouble with your heart? Get it removed, she thinks. Then you'll have no more problems.
- Margaret Atwood
Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away.
- John Henry Newman
Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.
- John Keats
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
- Martin Luther
I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.
- Ayn Rand
You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.
- Jon Bon Jovi
Let Me tell you unequivocally what is going to happen at the end of the age: There will be an invasion of seducing spirits with doctrines of demons that will attempt to lead the world into widespread, wide-scale deception and delusion. I am telling you up front and in language so clear that you cannot misunderstand — unprecedented delusion will enter the world in that hour.
- Rick Renner