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Quotes About Temptation

Natalya's nearly naked backside. "I
~ Lauren Weisberger
I'm not sure intentions make much difference in the end. I hear the road to hell is paved with them. She meant it frivolously, but Olivia answered seriously, Yes, but one does have to live with one's self. Not necessarily...There are any number of ways to avoid living with one's self. Gin, for example. Yes, but you're still there at the base of it aren't you. Only with a terrible head in the morning.
~ Lauren Willig
safe haven of murderers, the native land and cover for cardsharps, the general lure for loose women
~ Laurence Bergreen
Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
~ Laurence Sterne
Eve ate the apple because Adam was afraid
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Afraid that my head might burst through the roof, I head for the mall. I have ten bucks in my pocket—what to spend it on? French fries—ten bucks' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
~ Lawrence Block
I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you'd have thought it was filled with something stronger. I used to stare like that into glasses of whiskey, as if they contained coded answers. All they did was dissolve the questions, but there was a time when that was enough.
~ Lawrence Block
coffee must be 'hot as hell, black as sin, and sweet as love.
~ Lawrence Block
Not like a state trooper. Oh, you're a delight. No, it doesn't matter, forget it. Hey, let's go upstairs." "You're not kidding." "Put your hand here and you'll see if I'm kidding." "Well, what do you know about that? It's got a great big cock on it." "Christ!
~ Lawrence Block
First the man takes a drink, as one hears it said, and then the drink takes a drink. And even if that's where it stops, before the third step of and then the drink takes the man
~ Lawrence Block
Everybody has one thing that gets to him. Women or liquor or gambling or something. The trouble is when you've got more than one vice.
~ Lawrence Block
It's an even money that your Diners' Club card will be good at the decent cathouses.
~ Lawrence Block
I was surprised the drugs were still around. Cops are apt to pocket them, and men who would not take loose cash from the dead have trouble resisting the little pills that pick you up or settle you down. I took the Seconal and the Dex along with me.
~ Lawrence Block
bordello tokens
~ Lawrence Block
Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.
~ Lawrence Block
It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.
~ Lawrence Durrell
And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Cuesta mucho luchar contra el deseo del corazón; todo lo que quiere obtener, lo compra al precio del alma.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
~ Cole Porter
The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.
~ John Larroquette