Quotes About Temptation

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.