Quotes About Temptation

Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, 'You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.' 

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.

I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

God loves to make a man break a vow.

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains—because they're there.

before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand.

Many already leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express

Winnie, but I don't believe in sin." He smiled. It was a benevolent smile. Also unpleasant: sheep lips, wolf teeth. "That's fine. But sin believes in you.

And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.

I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture

To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.

Holly sighs. "I'm out of cigarettes, too." "Those things will kill you," Jerome says. She gives him a flat look. "Yes! That's part of their charm.

Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. It's soooo dark.

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it.

Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.

If we have free will, then you have to invite evil in.

The devil was unpredictable. He had been an angel once.