Quotes About Temptation

Cada impulso que intentamos aniquilar germina en la mente y nos envenena

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yeild to it.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Un cigarrillo es el moledo perfecto del perfecto placer. Es exquisito y lo deja a uno insatisfecho ¿Qué más podemos desear?

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

El cigarro es un ejemplo perfecto de un placer perfecto. Es exquisito y deja a uno insatisfecho

Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I can resist anything but temptation

I can resist everything except temptation.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. You are quite right to do that, he murmured. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!

the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world

El único modo de librarnos de la tentación es ceder a ella.

Miss Prim says that all good looks are a snare.' 'They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.' 'Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.

Pero, ¿y el retrato? ¿Qué iba a decir del retrato? El lienzo de Basil Hallward contenía el secreto de su vida, narraba su historia. Le había enseñado a amar su propia belleza. ¿Le enseñaría también a aborrecer su propia alma? ¿Volvería alguna vez a mirarlo?

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful

It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.