Quotes About Temptation

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

There is no mask that temptation cannot wear.

Le danger n'est pas dans la multiplication des machines, mais dans le nombre sans cesse croissant d'hommes habitués, dès leur enfance, à ne désirer que ce que les machines peuvent donner.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

This is good eating,' whispered Taki to my surprise, for the fish, if anything, looked highly poisonous.

The meringues were large and white and brittle as coral and stuffed to overflowing with cream.

the glitter and wink of the trapped fish inside it.

They saw that temptation coming but neither fought it off nor turned away from it toward something else. Simply, briefly, they chose not to hop on board with it. What did they do instead? Nothing. They let their spaciousness be. This

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

The devil does not stay where music is.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?