Quotes About Temptation

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

It is on the mango tree full of fruits that they throw stones.

This morning. We got reports from down here that people were doing "stupid sensual things," were in a state of "uncontrollable frenzy," were wriggling like fish, doing something called the "Eagle Rock" and the "Sassy Bump"; were cutting a mean "Mooche," and "lusting after relevance.

Dhe artisti i ri shkon drejt artit siç shkohet drejt mëkatit.

He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.

Ona ih je sve zalu?ivala, jer su ludi ro?eni, varala, jer su želeli da budu prevareni, i na kraju, uzimala im samo ono što su i ina?e bili rešeni da bace i izgube.

Samo, u ovakvom potpunom ostvarenju jedne želje kriju se velike opasnosti, a najve?a je u onoj novoj želji koja se namesto ostvarenja javlja. Ko zna kakva je ta i kud nas može odvesti? I ko zna od ?ega nas je branilo postojanje one prve, dok je bila u nama i mu?ila nas, živa i neostvarena?

Lepota, najve?a od svih varki ?ovekovih; ako je ne uzmeš - nema je, ako pokušaš da je uzmeš - prestaje da postoji.

He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into that life which he had left as a child in the slums of San Giusto in Trieste, right back into the world of ugly squalor and besetting vice from which he had run with all his strength for thirty years and which, for a long time now, he had believed was behind him.

Kažu da nije znao šta je žensko tijelo ni plotsko uživanje uopšte. Nikada nije okusio nikakva opojnog pi?a, ni fildžan kafe, ni dim duvana. Ali nije osu?ivao one koji se služe svim tim božjim darovima za ovoga kratkoga života.

When you are starting your life over, with a new sense of self, who you once were is going to challenge you. Who you once were is going to dangle old carrots, old wounds and issues, in front of your face. When that happens, you will be tempted to revert to old feelings, old patterns of thought, and old patterns of behavior.

Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.

One never kids about monkey sex with chocolate sauce.

being seduced is a pleasure in itself. One yields for the sake of yielding.

Don't trust me. Don't like me. I could give a shit. But don't you ever lie to me." He took a deep breath, as if he were drawing her into him. "I can smell the sex coming off you right now. I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you?" No, she probably wouldn't.

And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters. The waters, he said, were not receptive. If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

That's a lot of vegetables. It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl... He lifted the silver lid on another plate, revealed a small pizza, with pepperoni arranged into a smiley face. She tried to give him a stony stare, but the laugh won out. You think you're cute, don't you, pal? Adorable. In this case, you can have adorable. Ow! She managed the stony stare when he slapped her hand away from the pizza. Vegetables first.

Hey. Hands off.", "Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch." "Peabody, isn't it embarrassing enough you're wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?

A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and I, and make up for it. Sure, when I've lost my mind and want to rush screaming through the air in a little car.

Eve: She completely eye-fucked you. Roarke: I know. I feel so cheap and used. Eve: Shit. You got off on it. Men always do. Roarke: True enough, which is why we're so often cheap and used.

That's a 'Fuck Me' car and you know it." ~ Dallas "Well, yeah. Maybe. But it's got to be fast." ~ Peabody