Anthony Trollope Quotes

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

This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

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

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm told I'm an incredible flirt because I don't know I'm doing it. I don't want to even analyse it, but I seduce people, apparently; I suck them in.

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.

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.

It was difficult to contradict this artist—this seducer.

That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.

I'm impervious to charm. I can see through it.

When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

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

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

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

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?