Quotes About Temptation

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

We should be carefree with our bodies and prudish with our brains, not the contrary. How virtuous we are with our flesh, and yet the first foul thought that comes our way is invited to the depths of our soul.

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Jesus, according to both St Matthew and St Luke, spent forty days in the wilderness undergoing temptation by the devil before returning to proclaim his message of repentance and salvation

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

What is there that money will not do?

Le seul obstacle entre nous, disait-elle, c'est la boisson. - Je boirai l'obstacle, répondais-je

It was seductive, the machine. Enchanting. He couldn't help but be swayed and impressed.

Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.

For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.

una muchacha de unos diecisiete años con un pelo castaño enrulado y deshecho por la brisa, unos ojos marrones tristes y seguros, rotundos como ciruelas, un cuello que se deslizaba hacia unos senos maliciosamente oprimidos por esa camiseta blanca con dos números menos de los precisos, dos pezones, aunque cubiertos, alborotadores, y una cintura de esas que se cogen para bailar tango hasta que la madrugada y el vino se agotan.

A kiss of a woman is like a hiss of a serpent.

A person who goes into the gutter does not come out clean and ,at least, one activity field is like that dirty only.

A self-seeker may resist anything except the temptation of showing often own bigger face beside everything that s/he says as big thoughts.

Ordinary people can be easily tempted with the property assets, material objects and gold but the visionary person can be only attracted with the good deeds and wise words told by a hearty soul.

People can be educated but not protected from getting attracted towards a wicked person as that power lies within everyone's nature only.

The effect of women on a man's mind is same as that of wine because both stops the function of his brain.

The love between a man and a woman acts like a mousetrap to lure a man towards a woman enticing him like a pure cheese, but is secretly tied with a strap.

She practically had to stop herself from climbing his body and empaling herself on his cock.

Roane is an enemy, but a very fuckable one.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed at last, it was not because her body was weak but because her mind was curious.

Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite?