Quotes About Temptation

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

These things excite me so ,' she whispered. 'If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card.

What are you going to do? Can't say - run for president, write - Greenwich Village? Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

There were girls who would tear you apart with their lips.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

a negligée of robin's-egg blue laid out upon the bed diffused a faint perfume, elusive and familiar. On a chair were a pair of stockings and a street dress; an open powder box yawned upon the bureau. She had gone out.

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…

Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It

Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—

Sometimes when you're around I've been tempted to kiss you suddenly and tell you that you were just an idealistic boy with a lot of caste nonsense in his head.

But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on a wall.

He was tempted to lean over and kiss away her tears.

Back at two o'clock in the Roi George corridor the beauty of Nicole had been the beauty of Rosemary as the beauty of Leonardo's girl was to that of the girl of an illustrator. Dick moved on through the rain, demoniac and frightened, the passions of many men inside him and nothing simple that he could see.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure

some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were terrible speeds and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation;

The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all.