Quotes About Temptation

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

When I do think, 'Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.