# Quotes about seduction - Quotes: 12 - Authors: 5 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.json ## Quotes > Absence and presence have very primal effects upon us. Too much presence suffocates; a degree of absence spurs our interest. We are marked by the continual desire to possess what we do not have—the object projected by our fantasies. Learn to create some mystery around you, to use strategic absence to make people desire your return, to want to possess you. Dangle in front of others what they are missing most in life, what they are forbidden to have, and they will go crazy with desire. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Overcome this weakness in yourself by embracing your circumstances, your fate. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Laws of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/absence-and-presence.md) Topics: [secrets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Art of Seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction/sadness-of-any.md) Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Arrange an occasional “chance” encounter, as if you and your target were destined to become acquainted—nothing is more seductive than a sense of destiny. Lull the target into feeling secure, then strike. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Art of Seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction/arrange-an-occasional.md) Topics: [manipulation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > People who are outwardly distant or shy are often better targets than extroverts. They are dying to be drawn out, and still waters run deep. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Art of Seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction/people-who-are.md) Topics: [shyness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/shyness.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Your greatest power in seduction is your ability to turn away, to make others come after you, delaying their satisfaction. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Art of Seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction/your-greatest-power.md) Topics: [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Seduction is a game of psychology, not beauty, and it is within the grasp of any person to become a master at the game. All that is required is that you look at the world. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Art of Seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction/seduction-is-a-game.md) Topics: [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Your targets cannot idealize you if they know too much about you, if they start to see you as all too human. Not only must you maintain a degree of distance, but there must be something fantastical and bewitching about you, sparking all kinds of delightful possibilities in their mind. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Art of Seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-art-of-seduction/your-targets-cannot.md) Topics: [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it. [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md) · [Phineas Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-finn/she-knew-how.md) Topics: [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Breakfast of Champions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions.md) · p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions/charm-was-a-scheme.md) Topics: [manipulation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis. [Richard Brautigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan.md) · [Trout Fishing in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan/trout-fishing-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan/trout-fishing-in-america/there-are-seductions.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > If woman is made to please and to be in subjection to man, she ought to make herself pleasing in his eyes and not provoke him to anger; her strength is in her charms, by their means she should compel him to discover and use his strength. The surest way of arousing this strength is to make it necessary by resistance. Thus pride comes to the help of desire and each exults in the other's victory. This is the origin of attack and defence, of the boldness of one sex and the timidity of the other, and even of the shame and modesty with which nature has armed the weak for the conquest of the strong. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/if-woman-is-made.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md) > Let us give him everything. Let us lavish charms and merit on him. Let him be handsome, very clever, and lovable. He will be sought out by women. But in seeking him out before he loves them, they will unhinge him rather than make a lover out of him. He will have successes, but he will have neither transports nor passion for enjoying them. Since his desires, always provided for in advance, never have time to be born, he feels in the bosom of pleasures only the boredom of constraint. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/let-us-give.md) Topics: [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md), [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [seduction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/seduction.md)