Quotes About Temptation

De n-aÅŸ cunoaÅŸte setea infinit? de tristeÅ£e,de n-aÅŸ iubi cu patim? t?v?lirea în dezn?dejde,nu m-aÅŸ mai putea suferi ÅŸi mi-aÅŸ ucide cugetul f?r? mil? ÅŸi f?r? îndurerare.AÅŸ vrea s? fiu undeva departe,f?r? oameni,f?r? Dumnezeu,f?r? m?ri ÅŸi f?r? mine.Dar s? port aÅŸa ispita nefericirii în sânge.

Dac-ai avea curajul s?-?i exprimi dorin?a cea mai secret?, ai spune: A? vrea s? fi inventat toate viciile." <3

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.

Can we imagine a city dweller who does not have the soul of a murderer?

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

She has to live, but I pull her towards death.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

What am I to give the housemaids here? and do you object to my reading novels, if Lady Eskdale says there is no harm in them? They look very tempting, particularly one called Pride and Prejudice.

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

The U.S. overall has an excellent record when it comes to treatment of POWs and persons listed as foreign combatants, but the longer the war against terrorism goes on, the more tempting it is for our guys to stoop to the other side's level. After all, they're only human, and they might come to view the person sitting across from them as someone not worthy of any rights at all.

This for my own part i have more than once been deceived by the person I loved the most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth,but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on.

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room.

Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget.

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Felix's wife began to find monotony in an Eden so well arranged; the perfect happiness which the first woman found in her terrestrial paradise gave her at length a sort of nausea of sweet things, and made the countess wish, like Rivarol reading Florian, for a wolf in the fold. Such, judging by the history of ages, appears to be the meaning of that emblematic serpent to which Eve listened, in all probability, out of ennui.

What husband will be able to sleep peacefully beside his young and beautiful wife while he knows that three celibates, at least, are on the watch; that if they have not already encroached upon his little property, they regard the bride as their destined prey, for sooner or later she will fall into their hands, either by stratagem, compulsive conquest or free choice?

The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.

Alas! if your wife has not yet kissed the apple of the Serpent, the Serpent stands before her.

Thoughts of adultery do not take possession of the heart of a married woman all at once, like a shot from a pistol.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Why is it that everything I eat when I'm with you is so delicious?' I laughed. 'Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

El hambre nocturna es un espíritu maligno que actúa independientemente de la personalidad de cada uno.