Quotes About Temptation

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.

Life let you have what you wanted. But life was like a storekeeper who put up a sign saying "Buy now, pay later," and tempted you into buying so much that you were in debt for years

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.

The peach-out-of-reach in the adjacent orchard is always more alluring than the apple on the ground in one's own.

El populismo es una continua tentación de la política latinoamericana, porque suele surgir de un hecho histórico también frecuente en nuestras sociedades: el de las modernizaciones inconclusas.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people—doing all the right things—still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something—or someone—to blame.

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

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

I turned away, already wondering if he'd stick to the handout's condition, or if he'd head straight for his regular supplier. A tenner wouldn't buy him much, so maybe he'd just drink it away. I let it go: I could only make the offer – the rest was up to him. I'd learned a long time ago it was all you could do.

Walking away from something you want so badly that you know that isn't good for you, is one of the hardest things you'll ever do.

Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.

Walking away from something you want so badly, that you know isn't good for you, is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do.

WHEN THE DEVIL IGNORES YA, THEN YA KNOW YER DOIN SOMETHIN WRONG. . WHEN THE DEVIL COMES AT YA, MAYBE IT'S 'CAUSE YER TRYIN' TO DO SOMETHIN' RIGHT.

Walking away from something you want so badly, that you know isn't good for you, is the hardest thing you'll ever have to do.

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.

I love to touch you," Karen whispered, "to cuddle you, be fondled by you, love you. But it always leads to sex. You'll never know the times I've wanted to touch you, but not done it, because it always leads to sex.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.