Man proposes, woman forecloses.
~ Minna Antrim

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
~ Lord Byron

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
~ Quentin Crisp

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
~ Andrea Dworkin

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
~ Henry Fielding

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
~ Oliver Goldsmith

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.
~ Harry Graham

You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.
~ Bob Guccione

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
~ Christopher Hampton

The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
~ Rosamond Lehmann

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
~ Camille Paglia

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
~ Anthony Powell

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
~ William Shakespeare

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
~ Henri B. Stendhal

When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century.
~ Anonymous