To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so that she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Every man is to be had one way or another, and every woman almost any way.

She kept the man's name to herself throughout her labor and dying; she did not accuse him that he be punished with her. To save her inseminator's name she gave silent birth.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.