Quotes About Temptation

An eternally favorite deadly sin, lust fascinates through experience: our appetites and passions of sight, sound, taste, touch, and scent. We anticipate what it might be like to fulfill a craving, and that anticipation pulls us closer. As early as the sixth century AD, lust emerged as public enemy number one for Christians. And not without reason. Overcoming desire is no easy task. Buddhism presents the overcoming of desire as an ideal.

Self-control was overrated.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

Her fingers twitched. She shifted her head ever so slightly, her lips parted, her mouth upturned. Her breath was warm upon his throat. Aidan swallowed. Desire churned. His heart thundered. Heat raced through his veins. His cock was hard as stone. His body urged him to spread her thighs wide and take her here and now, to seat himself hard and tight and deep inside her and yield to the fire that seared his every nerve.

The scary part is I knew exactly how bad you were for me and yet that didn't stop me from loving you

I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

boy can resist being fed well by a good-natured and still handsome woman. Boys are very like nice dogs in this respect — give them a bone and they will like you at once.

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.

did here sit two or three hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and found myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature would gladly return to laying out money in this trade.

for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

And here je did baiser elle, but had not opportunity para hazer some with her as I would have offered if je had had it.

Eskiden eÄŸlenceliydi. Revueltalar? özlüyorum, bakirelerin boynuzlar?n üzerine at?l???n? ve havada dönerek terli s?rtlar?n?n üzerine düÅŸüÅŸlerini ve kuma çak?l??lar?n?! Ä°nsanoÄŸlunun bir tarz? vard?, yavrum! Sizin de olabilir ama ÅŸimdilik cazibeniz daha olgunlaÅŸmam??.

Well, but, Mrs. Jervis, said I, let me ask you, if he can stoop to like such a poor girl as me, as perhaps he may, (for I have read of things almost as strange, from great men to poor damsels,) What can it be for?—He may condescend, perhaps, to think I may be good enough for his harlot; and those things don't disgrace men that ruin poor women, as the world goes.

find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face. Grace withereth without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer, to teach us to handle our weapons.