Quotes About Temptation

Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now.

All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many things m full stop.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the to light is, know what it will do to them. And they come anyway.

Fear, as well as the hopeful (if not pointless) solutions offered to combat it, is ultimately what make progressivism so successful. It's what makes otherwise intelligent, rational, and good human beings succumb so easily to obviously absurd visions of the future painted by politicians. It's why our brothers and sisters and our children—and sometimes even you and I—are continually tempted by the progressive siren song.

mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.

him, Cousin One. But first, I'll take this." He grabbed for Riff's flute. Riff jumped back. "No, you won't!" Captain Zee swung his whip,

The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger with which he wished to impale her.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Ah! dou? suflete-s în mine! Cum se zbat În piept s? nu mai locuiasc? împreun?! Unul de lume strâns m? ?ine, încle?tat; cu voluptate, cel?lalt puternic c?tre cere?ti limanuri m? îndrum?.

Adam's wife, his first. Beware of her. Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. When Lilith winds it tight around young men She doesn't soon let go of them again.

Hay tantos medios de robarle las almas al diablo.

All our learned schoolmasters and tutors are agreed that children do not know why they want what they want. But no one likes to think - blindingly obvious though it is, in my view - that grown-ups too, like children, totter around on the earth and, like the children, do not know where they have come from or where they are going, act no more than children do for any true purpose and are just as governed by biscuits, cakes, and the rod.

Crkva odlican trbuh ima, citave zemlje vec je progutala, a ipak jos se nije prezderala; jedino crkva, gospo i gospodjice draga, moze da svari nezakonita blaga.

I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.

That's the test, when all is said and done. Does it persuade one to do good, to rise, to stand tall, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be generous? Then it is of the Spirit of God. If it is dark, sinister, ugly, not good, then you may know that it is of the adversary.

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.