Quotes About Temptation

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies, they get a free coffee, a sandwich. They take what comes, they're not aggressive. The meat eaters are the predators, they go after what they want—the drug rips, the mob payoffs, the cash.

It's a bitter lesson—you think you can rent your soul, but it's always a sale, and all sales are final.

Then he drinks, eats, and fucks.

When you want to catch a fish, you gotta give it the bait it's hungry for.

He recalls an old dicho— When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

Satán solo puede tentarte con lo que ya tienes.

The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you'll do, you'll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you'll do, you'll do for the ones you love most.

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

You can't invite wolves to dinner and not expect them to eat.

Everything I like will kill me

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

Every time I write, say, or think "lung cancer," I pick up a Pall Mall to calm myself.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.