Quotes About Temptation

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.

You," she murmured, using both hands to undo his belt, "are the sexiest man I have ever met." He made her think bad thoughts simply by breathing.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.