"Siren call" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... content, and sweet, calm joy. Her bid for the heart of him and the soul of him was finer and more generous than the bid of the Game; yet he dallied with both—held her in his arms, but turned his head to listen to that other and siren call she could ...
— The Game • Jack London
... the world seems to get along very well without us, without any one in particular. And I don't feel the siren call, not yet!" ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... you never heard that siren call to you, call seductively from her ragged isle, where lurk the reefs of greed and selfishness? Money! What has this siren not to offer? Power, ease, glory, luxury; aye, I had almost said love! But, no; love is the gift of God, money is the invention of man: ...
— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath |
