Quotes About Temptation

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake. Money is the thing they fight over most.

Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. And every time he went by, he would begin to walk very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high in the air and take long deep sniffs of the gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him. Oh

You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!

The moment he touched it with his fingers, something electric went through his body, and there came to him a powerful premonition that this was a thing that could destroy the peace and happiness of many people.

sneaking a beer by Jesus is like trying to sneak daylight by a rooster

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. "Easy is the descent into Hell.

Or maybe he was seeing double. Bad stuff, gin. Should 'ave switched to rum a long time ago. Good stuff, rum. You could drink it, or take a bath in it. No, that was gin — he meant Joe.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.

was the sort of jerk who would entice a young girl with candy and consider it a smart operation.

Nurse, if she didn't have more money than any person ought to have, you might be tempted to call it senile dementia. As it is, she is in for a rest and a check-up.

Can Penny come in?"  "Oh, sure! But you can tell her that she is wasting her time; the answer is still 'No.' "  So I changed my mind. Confound it, why should an argument seem so much more logical when underlined with a whiff of Jungle Lust?

I recall the day you swiped one of my cigars, and how sick it made you. Your mother and I carefully avoided noticing that you couldn't eat dinner that night and I've never mentioned it to you until now—boys have to try such things and discover for themselves that men's vices are not for them.

What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.

George has other reasons. "A junkie," George says, "has no choice. He's hooked. But somebody who isn't an addict, somebody who has the freedom to say 'yes' or 'no,' has to be crazy to take a pill or powder admittedly manufactured illegally and put it in his mouth. There is just no way of knowing what you're getting.

It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy going, I thought. Being horny at twenty degrees wasn't all that easy either.

Sandy's face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She had turned in her seat so that she had one thigh on each side of my leg. Her chest was against my arm. In another minute we wouldn't have to go anywhere to have sex.

smiled at me again, a smile perfectly capable of launching a thousand ships and very likely to burn the topless towers of Ilium. We

I drank some whiskey. When you've been nursing it out of a bottle neck, a glass and ice seems like being on the wagon.

Mostly I thought about Susan with her clothes off. This would solve nearly any problem I had

The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and

Pearl eyed a man and woman walking by in funny hats. Her whole body stiffened with the desire to bark at them. Mine too. But we had both been urged repeatedly not to, and we were