Quotes About Temptation

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.

Est fou, bien sûr, qui se refuse aux délices du vin, quand on peut dresser haut celui que je tiens là, palper un sein, caresser des deux mains une prairie offerte ! L'or danse et l'on oublie ses maux !

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.

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Ought we to be drunk every night? Sebastian asked one morning. Yes, I think so. I think so too.

You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.

Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning. "Yes, I think so." "I think so too.

Tead, kui ma vaatan seda oma suurt kinniseotud jalga, siis ma ei saa lahti tundest, et mul on podagra, ja see tekitab hirmsat ?šampuseisu.

But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. One can only hope to see one step ahead. But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable — like things in the schoolroom, so bad they are unpunishable, that only Mummy could deal with — the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.

Yes I am poor man. When I was very young I used often to be drunk. Now it is very seldom. Once or two times in the year. But always I do something I am very sorry for. I think perhaps I shall get drunk tonight," he suggested, brightening.

The temptation for Guy, which he resisted as best he could, was to brood on his own bereavement and deplore the countless occasions of his life when he had failed his father. That was not what he was here for. There would be ample time in the years to come for these selfish considerations.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.