Quotes About Temptation

He who aspires to dine with the vampire must bring his own meat.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick.

I don't think if people gambled for what they could afford it would be very interesting.

I drink a little now once in a while, just to drive the wolf out of the room

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

To drink is nothing. It's important to be drunk.

I settled back. Brett moved close to me. We sat up close against each other. I put my arm around her and she rested against me comfortably. It was very hot and bright, and the houses looked sharply white. We turned out onto the Gran Via. Oh, Jake, Brett said, We could have have such a damned good time together. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so.

They got into a taxi and drove out to Rimmily Hissa along the Bosphorus, and around, and back in the cool night and went to bed and she felt as over-ripe as she looked but smooth, rose-petal, syrupy, smooth-bellied, big-breasted and needed no pillow under her buttocks, and he left her before she was awake looking blousy enough in the first daylight and turned up at the Pera Palace with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing.

Quién va a corromperle a usted? ¿Quién corrompe a un joven como usted, que bebe alcohol de quemar, con una botella de Marsala?

He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.

the clasp of the gold chain

Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

I]nfidelity has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.

Eventually, if desire withers, monogamy too easily slides downward into celibacy. When this happens, fidelity becomes a weakness rather than a virtue.

The swiping culture lures us with infinite possibilities, but it also exerts a subtle tyranny. The constant awareness of ready alternatives invites unfavorable comparisons, weakens commitment, and prevents us from enjoying the present moment.

Sex without sin is like an egg without salt. —Luis Buñuel