Quotes About Temptation

Alleine in einer nächtlichen Küche können einem die Gedanken nämlich für immer stehenbleiben, so ein Ort ist das. Auf keinen Fall sollte man sich lange darin aufhalten. Man darf die Mutter, die Ehefrau, die Tochter nicht dort einschließen. Neben tollen russischen Eintöpfen entstehen hier nämlich auch Mordgelüste und heimliche Alkoholikerinnen. In diesem großartigen Herzen des Hauses.

La tentación del martirio es grande también, porque nos evita examinarnos profundamente. Pero de nada sirve convertirnos en enfermeros, terapeutas y guardianes 24 x 7 si vamos a acabar con nuestra salud y estabilidad mental en pocos años. La carrera es larga y sólo podemos aprovechar las oportunidades que pueden aparecer si tenemos reservas de confianza y energía para poder hacer alguna locura cuando parece valer la pena.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.

I think you must have forgotten, Anita," the Duke said, "that I told you never to come to a conservatory alone with a man unless you wanted him to make love to you." "I-I never - thought - " "That it applied to me?" the Duke finished. "Well, it does!

strangely, he wasn't in the mood to look at files and papers. Not with Heather Cole to look at. For that matter, even the journals might have fallen short—a shocking thought, but one he wasn't about to analyze at the moment. "I wasn't sure you'd be here, and

OLIVIA DIDN'T WANT TO SEE SIMON. She didn't know how to deal with what she felt. It was raw physical attraction with no emotional link, and it was totally wrong at

lattice table by the pool. JW Sterling tried to ignore the fresh baking, but his gaze caught and held

spine. She told herself not to get carried away. He was

There is no temptation from outside the heart.

Wrong place. Wrong man. Wrong time. What a shame his kisses felt so right.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

Rupert hardly knew what to say. If only he could take her to bed with him, he thought as they approached the pensione, so much might be smoothed out there. But perhaps it was just as well that circumstances made it impossible at this moment, for that might bring about even deeper complications.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. —PIERS PAUL READ

You're obviously capable of achieving a lot, but ability can never take the place of desire. Don't be tempted to do something just because you can. That's what got you off course in the first place.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass!

Sternly saving his greatest strength for the right wing, he did not yield to that vaulting ambition in his plan. But the lure of the left wing remained to tempt his successors.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct.

No man is so rich as to buy every thing his unrestrained fancy might prompt him to desire. Hounds and horses, pictures and statues and buildings, will exhaust any fortune. There is hardly any one taste so simple or innocent, but what a man might spend his whole estate in it, if he were resolved to gratify it to the utmost. A nobleman may just as easily ruin himself by extravagance as a private man, and indeed many do so.

what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night

Evil eyes look out for occasion, therefore give none.

Our parents were then driven out of Paradise, and one leaf alone was given to each, wherewith to hide their nakedness.