Quotes About Temptation

It's full of festering poison, this place, and it looks as peaceful and as innocent as the Garden of Eden." "Even there," said Owen drily, "there was one serpent.

Beauty is perhaps a dangerous possession,' I said.

I don't feel as though I've got the heart to eat anything," and then partook of everything offered her,

These women all lose their heads over a good-looking clergyman. You hear of it over and over again.

Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo tener más de lo que se ha de recibir.

Every mortal luxury…

Now you must realize this, Hastings. Everyone is a potential murderer. In everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill. How often have you not felt or heard others say: 'She made me so furious

I wanted to kill... yes, I wanted to kill. But- incongruous as it may seem to some- I was retrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

She went on broodingly: "It's so dreadfully easy—killing people. And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter . . . that it's only you that matters! It's dangerous—that.

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

La mujer puede ser la ayuda del hombre y la inspiración de su vida, pero también puede ser su perdición. Puede arrastrarlo al nivel de la bestia.

But I did see that her dislike of Mrs. Leidner might have made her succumb to the temptation of, well—putting the wind up her—to put it vulgarly. She might have hoped to frighten away Mrs. Leidner from the dig.

Women however charming, have this disadvantage - they distract the mind from food.

Shall I neglect you a little?' suggested Tommy. 'Take other women about to night clubs. That sort of thing.' 'Useless,' said Tuppence. 'You would only meet me there with other men. And I should know perfectly well that you didn't care for the other women, whereas you would never be quite sure that I didn't care for the other men. Women are so much more thorough.

Just one more line, please. I'll do anything. And I mean anything." "Good, we've got him hooked," said Ryan. "It won't be long now before he's on heroin." Josie added, "Then it's just slavery, pedophilia, and murder." "Don't forget incest," said Flora.

kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia

You know what, sweetheart? If you ever feel even slightly inclined to come into my office and seduce me while I'm writing, you should act on it. Immediately. Even if I'm on the phone with my editor. Even if my parents are there. Even if I happen, for whatever reason, to be hosting a meeting with the pope. I will stop the discussion, and I will pleasure you right then and there, in a wholly spectacular fashion.

You understand that the defilements promise you so much but that they never actually deliver.

You don't want to get too caught up in this world." Tsunetaro's voice was stern, but his facial expression had relaxed perceptibly. "I've seen it a hundred times. You may start off as an impartial observer, but tattooing is like narcotics. You become fascinated, then addicted, and the next thing you know you're ruining your own skin with ink and dyes.

In one such rented attic room was a young man who made his living selling fish. Every morning he would get up before the crack of dawn and carry his tin box to the riverbank, where he bought his goods. He worked furiously for an entire month, and then at the end of the month he put on his finest clothes and went out to buy a prostitute—as if that made it all worthwhile.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Hard work pays off in the end, but laziness pays off now.