Quotes About Temptation

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.