Catherine the Great Quotes

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

Maybe I am a bit of a siren.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.