Quotes About Temptation

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.