Quotes About Temptation

What men say: I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong. What men think: I'd love a Chipwich. I should go get one.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.