Quotes About Temptation

I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Devilish in my innocence.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling sought release at every opportunity, and with it Grete now felt tempted to want to make Gregor's situation even more terrifying, so that then she would be able to do even more for him than now.

It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

Loneliness is my only goal, my greatest temptation, my possibility and, if you can say that I have 'organized' my life, then it has been organized to make loneliness feel good.

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out, because of impatience we cannot return.

Um dos meios mais eficazes de sedução do Mal é o convite à luta.

Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam mo?an. A ja sam samo posljednji po ?inu.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.

Eräs Pahuuden tehokkaimmista viettelykeinoista on kutsua mukaan taisteluun. Se on samanlainen kuin naisen kanssa käytävä taistelu, joka johtaa vuoteeseen.

Evil is whatever distracts

La niña, de apenas trece años y algo jorobada, le golpeo con el codo y le miro de soslayo. Ni su juventud ni su defecto corporal habían impedido que se corrompiese. Ni siquiera le sonreía, sino que lanzaba a K miradas provocativas

Ä°nsan?n belli baÅŸl? iki günah? vard?r, öbürleri bunlardan ç?kar: sab?rs?zl?k ve tembellik. Sab?rs?z olduklar? için Cennet'ten kovuldular, tembelliklerinden geri dönemiyorlar. Ama belki de belli baÅŸl? sadece bir günahlar? var: Sab?rs?zl?k. Sab?rs?zl?klar?ndan ötürü kovulmuÅŸlard?, sab?rs?zl?klar?ndan ötürü geri dönemiyorlar.

he had recently noted a certain tendency toward self-pity, an almost irresistible urge to give in to every desire

51. Trzeba by?o po?rednictwa w??a; z?o mo?e uwie?? cz?owieka, ale nie mo?e zosta? cz?owiekiem.

The simile of the bird in the hand and the two in the bush has only a very remote application here. In my hand I have nothing, in the bush is everything, and yet—so it is decided by the conditions of battle and the exigency of life—I must choose the nothing.

This mustache was obviously perfumed, one was almost tempted to draw near and sniff it.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace, and many in between, we've sampled the populist temptation, often in times of national distress and dislocation.