Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

Power is seductive.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

Devil, you've got me all in a whirl. I'm wise to your game.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

I make people step over the ant trail.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon

It was difficult to contradict this artist—this seducer.