Quotes About Temptation

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

I've got one more record, she said. -Have you heard 'So Long, Letty'? I suppose you have. Honestly, you don't understand-I haven't heard a thing. Nor known, nor smelt, nor tasted, he might have added; only hot-cheeked girls in hot secret rooms. The young maidens he had known at New Haven in 1914 kissed men, saying There!, hands at the man's chest to push him away. Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent....

The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

Oh, Clara!' Amory said; 'what a devil you could have been if the Lord had just bent your soul a little the other way!

You want life to be a chain of flirtation with a man for every link. Want it to be one! You mean I've found it one.

mas carregava o excesso de carne com sensualidade, como algumas mulheres.

She [dreamily]: I've kissed dozens of men. I suppose I'll kiss dozens more. He [abstractedly]: Yes, I suppose you could--like that. She: Most people like the way I kiss. He [remembering himself]: Good Lord, yes. Kiss me more, Rosalind. She: No-- my curiosity is generally satisfied at one.

Suddenly he felt an overwhelming desire to let himself go to the devil -- not to go violently as a gentleman should, but to slip safely and sensuously out of sight.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him.

You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.

Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man.

Tahtsin ära minna ja sumedas õhtuhämaruses pargi poole jalutada, aga iga kord, kui ma lahkumist üritasin, mässiti mind lärmakasse, pöörasesse vaidlusse, mis kiskus mu nagu köitega toolile tagasi. Ent küllap vaatas samal ajal mõni juhuslik möödamineja pimenevalt tänavalt üles, uudistades inimsaladusi, mida varjas meie kollaste akende rida.

Bir an ona a??km???m gibi hissettim. Ama ben ölçüp tartan, uzun uzun düÅŸünen, kurallar? olan biriyim, bu da arzular?m? frenlememi saÄŸlar.

She sat there admiring the beauty of the light amber fluid in the clear bottle, the way the condensation on the Miller bottle ran down the black and gold label, like it was a fine piece of art. That was the problem with alcohol. It was so beautiful to look at, how could you resist it? And what kind of place could be more inviting and seductive than a truly elegant cocktail bar?

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top

There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.

Saiba que ceder aos instintos é multiplicar o bordel burguês. E quem diz isso não sou eu, é Lenin.

Come chocolates, pequena; Come chocolates! Olha que não há mais metafísica no mundo senão chocolates. Olha que as religiões todas não ensinam mais que a confeitaria.

All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.

El cuerpo vive porque se desintegra, sin desintegrarse del todo. Si no se desintegrara segundo a segundo, sería un mineral. El alma vive porque es tentada constantemente, aunque se resista. Todo vive porque se opone a algo. Pero, si yo no existiera, nada existiría, porque no habría a qué oponerse, como la paloma de mi discípulo Kant, que, al volar en el aire leve, pensaba que podría volar mejor en el vacío.

Come chocolates, pequena; Come chocolates! Olha que não há mais metafísica no mundo senão chocolates. Olha que as religiões todas não ensinam mais que a confeitaria. Come, pequena suja, come! Pudesse eu comer chocolates com a mesma verdade com que comes! Mas eu penso e, ao tirar o papel de prata, que é de folhas de estanho, Deito tudo para o chão, como tenho deitado a vida.)

El sueño es la peor de las cocaínas, por ser la más natural de todas.

Não se pode comer um bolo sem o perder.