Quotes About Temptation

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

Men are ruled by toys.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.