Quotes About Temptation

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

The girl I've been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.

Daniel had ruined that couple's life. Killed their daughter. All because he'd been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

It is better to die of drink then to die of thirst.

La sensación de estar cometiendo un pecado estaba bien para pasar un rato, pero al final resultaba agotador.

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

Every dog knew that if you didn't eat beef the moment it was set before you, it had a tendency to escape.

Temptation got too strong," Selethen told them as he came closer. "I decided to come with you.

Delia felt a small thrill of triumph as the smile on Alyss's face faded slightly, and for a moment she was tempted to accept. But she realized almost immediately that this small triumph was likely to be the only one she would enjoy that evening.

Halt never ceased to be fascinated by the way women, young or old, big or small, could not resist the temptation to feed Horace.

I was brought up in a religion by which I was always taught to renounce the devil; but should I comply with your desire, and go to Mass, I should be sure to meet him there in a variety of shapes.

You didn't throw rocks at me! Yeah, but I thought about it.

The reason people become sick is the same reason that they become sinful. They surrender to the suggestion of the thing that is evil, and it takes possession of the heart.

Man may escape from rope and gun;Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill:Who takes a woman must be undone,That basilisk is sure to kill.The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets,So he that tastes woman, woman, woman,He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on...

wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...

evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.

Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.