Quotes About Temptation

Work on Monday?! My mind is telling me no, but my wallet says yes.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

...like stealing the juice from tomorrow's fruit.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

The better a pie tastes, the worse it is for you.

Plunging to the very depths of sensual pleasure, he gathered more gravel than pearls.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. We must beware of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites.

There is more poison in aphorisms than in painted candy; but it is of a less seductive kind.

My heart says chocolate and wine, but my jeans say "For the love of all that is good, eat a salad!"

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

The tragedy is, when you've got sex in your head, instead of down where it belongs, and when you have to go on copulating with your ears and your nose.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

The cigarette is a mortal passion.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

Quando o cristão bota a corda no pescoço, o diabo se pendura nos ombros dele.

we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.

Lady in red, take my advice, you'd be better off dead.

Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured. "Always," Parker said.

That was the hazard she'd face every day, here: not just the risk that she'd give in to temptation, but the risk that all the principles she'd chosen to define herself would come to seem like nothing but masochistic nonsense.

One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they're not chosen. We are blessed with the freedom to make choices that people in most times and places don't get to make. The special temptation of living in a society where we have personal liberties is the seductive idea that obligations are less binding, or not binding at all, if we came under them through birth or other circumstances beyond our control.