Quotes About Temptation

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

Part time christian cannot defeat a full time devil

To obey the serpent is to live in once upon a time glory of God

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

It would be so easy to forget, so easy to be enticed by an old dream.

She had forgotten—ah, yes, she had forgotten just how much he could stir her blood and make her ache with longing for him.

Ah, what we do to destroy ourselves, Philippa thought. Yet so many of us do it.

Had he really held her and kissed her, not in anger, but in real need? Had there been tears in his eyes when he first lifted her against him? Had he called her 'darling,' as he had done during those days in Devon? And he had been going to take her to bed. She could have made love with Robert last night. Her needle paused above her work as shivers sizzled up her arms and along her spine.

She might have said yes. It was a shameful admission to have to make even in the privacy of her own thoughts. Perhaps especially there. He exerted a very powerful magic over her. Even more powerful than when she had first known him.

You are right, he said, his words slightly slurred. I have been drinking. And drink makes me sentimental. Tomorrow I shall be able to see you as you really are again and I shall despise myself for having detained you here. But for tonight, Elizabeth, I find you infinitely desirable.

He chattered on with the larger group, reclining indolently on one elbow on the blanket, sucking on the end of a blade of grass, and resisting with all the power of his will the urge to jump to his feet and stride off through the trees alone. He felt rather as if he were suffocating.

He hovered at the edge of a kiss, just as a few nights before he had hovered . . .

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

What woman below the age of thirty could look at Jack and not fall in love with him? He is almost criminally handsome and quite irresistibly roguish. What a combination. It should not be allowed.

Light flirtation was in danger of giving way to something less comfortable.

If all you need is a little temptation, then I am here at your service to provide it, ma'am.

Into what had she allowed herself to be goaded?