Quotes About Temptation

Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.

I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don't think I've ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom—off-limits if I value my life.

It's the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who'll help you out of it

Some knowledge is inherently corrupting

I can't get out of here soon enough, he thinks, and glances at his smartwatch—a birthday present from his wife—only to see that it has crashed and frozen on reboot, mocking him with an image of the apple from the tree of knowledge, one bite down.

Real physical perfection isn't something a guy like me gets to see up close and personal very often, and it's something to marvel at - then run away from, before it hypnotizes you like a snake staring into the eyes of something small, furry, and edible.

The rich smell of life uneaten.

Moral of story: if you are a flesh-eating monster, do not let the chattering monkey insert a bang-stick in your mouth while you're trying to snack down on its brains. Seriously, no good will come of this.

If we know for certain that God sees all we do and all we are, we will not be tempted ask others to validate us by displaying our virtues, nor will we tempt others to judge us by displaying our sins. Only God can validate us; only God can judge.

I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back. - Matthew in a letter to Jane.

Oh my God! Lindsay cried. I swear I shall practice celibacy every day for the rest of my life! I swear it, Anais.

How do you manage to make me feel like this?' he asked her in a low, thickened voice. 'You give me nothing, absolutely nothing, yet I can't stop wanting you.' His hand reached out, almost pleadingly, to touch her arm. 'Selina ...' -Ashley Dent

No one so beautiful could ever conceive of leaving the daylight world to which she had a natural claim in order to be smothered by the midnight secrecy of his illicit caress. Oh

While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

If it comes easy...Take it twice

How could I have missed the opportunity to pop pills with my sister who was purer than a Quaker?

The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return.

We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing. ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister

Tally yanked her hand away and stuck it behind her back. God. I am so sorry. She'd touched him. Felt the heat of his tanned skin, felt the crisp hairs at his groin...felt...oh, man. Nice try, but no cigar. Want to go for two out of three? Tally closed her eyes and blew out a breath. Oh, this day just gets better and better. It's certainly looking up for me. With an amused glance, the pirate hitched his shorts back over the sharp angle of his hipbones. There'd been so sign of a tan line.

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it. Had not a Minister of State said, albeit in an unguarded, alcoholic moment, that the trouble was not in receiving bribes, but in failing to do the thing for which the bribe was given? And if you refuse, how do you know that a "brother" or a "friend" is not receiving on your behalf, having told everyone that he is your agent?

But the eye is very greedy and will steal a look at something its owner has no wish to see.

She did it because it was, like so much else that made her happy, dangerous and self-destructive and just a little bit sick.

Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.