Quotes About Temptation

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

Every time I think I'm going to take it slow, a good script comes along.

I am bound to get carried away by anyone who approaches me with a good script.

When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possbly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

A GLUTTON IS ONE who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint.

You have always wanted to caress every monster.

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.

He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself

Il cristianesimo dette da bere il veleno a Eros. Questi non ne morì, ma ben degenerò, in vizio.

One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss".

The man who has come to know vice in connection with pleasure... imagines that virtue must be associated with displeasure.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!