Quotes About Temptation

me, like the feeling you get when you've just splurged on something too expensive and they're wrapping it up in soft tissue paper. You know you're going to feel bad in hours, maybe minutes, but right now you feel decadent, in control.

We just met and we're already doing heroin? I said. Seems sudden.

T]here may be no more depressing place on the planet than the floor of a casino.

I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them." Myt-ser

Work in the kitchen of the inn had provided her with many opportunities to snatch a mouthful of pastry or a choice potato dumpling or a half stein of dark beer, and she had availed herself of most of them—with the result that she possessed a lush and blooming figure of the sort that appeals to men like Lame Hans

You hated it—hated its nasty ugly ways, its noise and smoke and most of all its shaggy shitty itch for gelt, gelt for this and gelt for that until a man couldn't fart without paying

You may kiss me and eat one bite of my apple," she told him. "One bite, no more." He was frightened, and shook his head. "One bite will let you understand everything." Her voice was music. "Two bites would let you understand more than everything, and more than everything is too much." He backed away. The

if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.

The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, For from the time he kissed her hinder parts He didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts; His malady was cured by this endeavor And he defied all paramours whatever.

And, therefore, Saint Jerome says, 'Do some good deeds, so that the Devil, who is our enemy, will not find you unoccupied

The youngest of the three, who went to the town, turned over full oft in his mind the beauty of those gold coins, new and bright. "O Lord," said he, "if only it were so that I might have to myself all this treasure alone, there is no man who lives under the Throne of God who would be as merry as I!" And, at last, the Devil, our enemy, put into his thoughts that he should buy poison, with which he might slay his fellows two.

Now, my friends, keep you from the white and from the red, and especially from the white wine of Spain that is for sale in the streets of London. This wine of Spain creeps subtly into other wines, which are grown nearby, from which there rise such fumes to the head that, when a man has drunk three draughts and thinks he is at home in London, he is in Spain, right at the town of Lepe—not in La Rochelle, nor at Bordeaux town—and then will he drunkenly say, "Samson, Samson!

Why," said this Summoner, "ride you then in sundry shapes, and not always in the same one?" "Because we will assume whatever form," said the Fiend, "is most suitable to catch our prey." "And what causes you to undertake all this labor?" asked the Summoner.

Nor have you well taken heed of the words of Ovid, who says, 'Under the honeyed enticements of the flesh is hidden the venom that slays the soul.

One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.

Being good and sweet in this life is enough to attract evil

Know your product. Know your customer. And never, ever, underestimate the power of greed.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.