Quotes About Temptation

I had formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the frying-pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you.

If it were said that he who cannot deny himself anything he inclines to, though he knows it will be to his hurt, has not the virtue of resolution or fortitude, it would be intelligible enough; but, as it stands, it seems obscure or erroneous.

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

that hard-to-be-governed passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way,

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Thou shalt not receive any gift; for a gift bindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." (Exod. xxiii. 8.)

Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.

The moral of the story here is that if you're ever offered anything that seems like it might lead to sex, there is no turning back. You just have to take it as it comes or you will remain a virgin for life.

I'm not against half naked girls — not as often as I'd like to be.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

I will only take up acting if the offer is too good to refuse.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

When I knew I had the chance to play for Liverpool I couldn't refuse it.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

Some people are totally fine with just checking Instagram once a day and then putting their phone down. But with me... self regulation is very difficult and it's a battle.

Cellphones are very addictive. Even if one goes to rehab to get rid of this addiction, it's not going to work.

The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.

Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.

I have been offered thrice to participate in 'Bigg Boss' and I rejected it everytime.

Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.