Quotes About Temptation

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.

You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.

What had our relationship been? A betrayal of those around us, or the desire of another life?

Who lays the crumbs of food that tempt you? Towards a person you never considered. A dream. Then later another series of dreams.

I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full.

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it.

David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries.

We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be "made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

By that sin fell the angels.

I know what sin is.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.