Quotes About Temptation

her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman's lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow.

Whilst I would have given worlds to touch your hand, you have let a rake come in without right or ceremony and—kiss you! Heaven's mercy—kiss you!

I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand. I

as Milton's Satan first saw Paradise.

Was Bathsheba altogether blind to the obvious fact that the support of a lover's arms is not of a kind best calculated to assist a resolve to renounce him? Or was she sophistically sensible, with a thrill of pleasure, that by adopting this course for getting rid of him she was ensuring a meeting with him, at any rate, once more?

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanting it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train.

Dr. Doemling, does he want to fuck her or kill her, or eat her, or what?' Mason asked, exhausting the possibilities he could see. 'Probably all three,' Dr. Doemling said.

If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come …

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Mixed hungers crossed his face; it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

Funerals often make us want sex—it's one in the eye for death.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant!

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side

Para un joven adepto un poco perplejo, que no estaba, sin embargo, falto de experiencia en el dominio de las cosas prohibidas, tal suposición no sólo era extravagante, sino que resultaba seductora hasta el punto de imponérsele con toda la apariencia lógica de la verdad.

Pieter Peeperkorn will now regale himself with a schnapps.

It's a craving that shouldn't even exist, and yet you can't wish it didn't exist. Once it has hold of you, you can't wish it away, because you'd have to wish your life away, it's so bound up with it, and you can't do that—what good would dying do? Afterward—with pleasure. In her arms—only too gladly. But before? That's nonsense, because life is desire, and desire is life, and life can't be its own enemy.

Sin embargo, no puede decirse que sufriera. Su cabeza y corazón estaban ebrios, y sus pasos seguían las indicaciones del demonio, que se complace en conculcar la dignidad y la razón del ser humano.

Renunciation is our compact with the Muse; in it reposes our strength, our value; and life is our forbidden garden, our great temptation, to which we yield sometimes, but never to our profit.

Terwijl ik dit opschrijf, zie ik het beeld voor me van een armzalige bedelaar die voor de etalage van een juwelier naar de glans van een kostbaar kleinood met edelstenen staart. Die man zal zich zelf nooit toestaan de wens uit te spreken dat hij dit sieraad wil bezitten; want alleen al de gedachte aan dat verlangen zou lachwekkend en onmogelijk zijn en zou hem voor zichzelf een voorwerp van spot maken.