allure quotes

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.281^4.

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

- Anthony Trollope
  Phineas Finn, ch.57.