Quotes About Temptation

Here, m'lord." She put her hands over his eyes from behind. "Can you guess what I'm wearing?" "Nothing?" "Oh, you're so smart," she pouted, snatching her hands away. "How did you know?" "You're very beautiful in nothing". "Am I?" She said. "Am I truly?" "Oh yes." "Then shouldn't you be fucking me instead of talking?

He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.

the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume.

There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.

The smell of food made him realize how ravenous he was. There was hot bread and honey, a bowl of pease porridge, a skewer of roast onions and well-charred meat. He sat by the tray, pulled apart the bread with his hands, and stuffed some into his mouth.

Come, drink with me," the fat man said. "A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say.

Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.

Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?

There are other ways to tempt men, besides the flesh.

She even smells like sin, like some exotic lotus.

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.

one more book, he had told himself, then i'll stop. one more folio, just one more. one more page then i'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. "I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about", he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it. Ladies and Gentlemen, SAMWELL TARLY IS ONE OF US!

She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them.

He offers the honeycomb with one hand and shows the whip with the other.

You'll think of me every time you go to bed. Then you'll get hard and you'll have no one to help you and you'll never be able to sleep unless you-" She grinned that wicked grin Tyrion liked so well. "-is that why they call it the Tower of the Hand, m'lord?

Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

He'd holler starvation in a pie shop.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

I believe in original sin … I know that I'm capable of craving a cold beer in a village of starving kids … I understand that selfishness vies for space in our hearts with compassion …

I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon.

I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell.

I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell. More than any forbidden fruit, this delectable treat — best when crispy, the little grease bubbles still dancing happily on its crenelated edges — epitomizes things we know we shouldn't eat, but still crave and keep going back to. In short, it's food crack.

There is always some limit which the individual accepts. He identifies this limit with himself. Horror seizes him at the thought that this limit may cease to be. But we are wrong to take this limit and the individual's acceptance of it seriously. The limit is only there to be overreached. Fear and horror are not the real and final reaction; on the contrary, they are a temptation to overstep the bounds.