Quotes About Temptation

Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

He is . . . like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.

I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Gifts are hooks.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

We risk all in being too greedy.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The cunning livery of hell.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self, a journey into our killer's desire.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.