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Quotes About Temptation

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
~ Neil Jackson
Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
~ Heather Locklear
They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
~ Barry Cryer
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
~ Al Goldstein
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
~ Christopher Hampton
Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes
~ Robert Lowell
You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.
~ Elizabeth Strout
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
~ Aldous Huxley
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
~ Joyce Cary
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
~ Zoë Heller
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.
~ Anthony of Padua
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
~ Ptolemy
You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."
~ Ice Cube
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
~ Carrie Nation
Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
~ Howard Hughes
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.
~ Rita Hayworth
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
~ John Owen
Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
~ Hafez
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
~ Franz Kafka
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?
~ Christina Rossetti
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.
~ Paulo Coelho