Quotes About Temptation

Eddie Mars would have been very unlikely to involve himself in a double murder just because another man had gone to town with the blonde he was not even living with. It might have annoyed him, but business is business, and you have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes.

You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

He had been gorgeous to look at and deadly to live with.

smoke, drink, never think—borrowed from Billie Holiday.

God will not allow us to be overwhelmed by temptation, but with it He will provide a way of escape so that we will be able to endure it.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

Perdition and evil make life fun, but conflicts eventually arise.

Odysseus...sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.

Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.

sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern.

A mule doesn't like to plow. But he likes carrots. So you hang a carrot in front of his eyes. A mule without a carrot gets exhausted. A mule with a carrot spends a long time being tired.

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.

We may find the attractions of a particular member of the opposite sex irresistible, even though the better judgment of our better self tells us that a liaison with that person is not in anyone's long-term interests.

To succumb to the God Temptation in either of those guises, biological or cosmological, is an act of intellectual capitulation. If you are trying to explain something improbable, it can never suffice to invoke an entity that is, in itself, at least as improbable. If you'll stoop to magicking into existence an unexplained peacock-designer, you might as well magic an unexplained peacock and cut out the middleman.

St Augustine said it quite openly: 'There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn' (quoted in Freeman 2002).

To succumb to the God Temptation in either of those guises, biological or cosmological, is an act of intellectual capitulation.

I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair.

Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common

But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough.

You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat

It seems to me that when you are young, you think about sex most of the time, but you don't reflect on it much

What if Susan, from religious or moral scruple, had discouraged his interest, and taught him nothing more than tactical astuteness when playing mixed doubles? What if Macleod had continued to hold a sexual interest in his wife? None of this might have happened. But given that it had, then if you wanted to attribute fault, you were straight away into prehistory, which now, in two of their three cases, had become inaccessible.