Quotes About Temptation

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back up!

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.