Quotes About Temptation

The ultimate goal is to give somebody something that they didn't know they wanted, but once they saw it, they had to have it.

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

My body felt alive. I need more. "Valkyrie, " Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. "Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave.

Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.

Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.