Quotes About Temptation

he already knew that a few more days with her would be too dangerous, too potent...and he didn't want to break her heart. Not when he knew just how sweet she was, how innocent.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire

She bought it, but it took a bit more coaxing to bring out the ring, which she kept on a silver chain around her neck. She even dropped it into my palm after I promised not to throw it down the nearest volcano.

I listened to make sure she wasn't coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional.

Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather.

Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day.

but a lot o' molls and a lot of sucker guys. Them? Say, they never learn no better. Tough guys ain't no different from soft guys, see? They all fall for the dames just as hard and just as worse. There's many a good guy in this place that's been gave a tumble by them, see?

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

We eat in silence, listening to the rain. Both of us look forlornly at the bar, thinking that we shouldn't, we mustn't. On the other hand, we could simply pass out drunk here and maybe they'd take us to jail. There are beds in jail. Soap. New people to meet.

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

para comer con el demonio hace falta una cuchara muy larga.

Have a old old testament quote that says that man shall not live by bread alone

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...

It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.