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Quotes About Temptation

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
~ Baltasar Gracian
I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!
~ Blake Lively
I have been offered so many parts in movies and I just think it's so outrageous as I've never really done acting or things like that.
~ Amy Macdonald
If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
~ Octavia Spencer
An overflow of good converts to bad.
~ William Shakespeare
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Like unmixed wine, the dictatorship had a taste that was intoxicating and perilous.
~ Tom Holland
Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.
~ Tom Holland
We always want what we're not allowed.'20 Ovid, in offering this sage observation, was putting his finger on a mocking truth. Forbidden fruit tasted the sweetest. 'Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.
~ Tom Holland
LOVE IS ONLY LUST DRESSED UP FOR CHURCH.
~ Unknown
I thought about the kind of man who would stop off somewhere for a gun but not put on a pair of pants before committing grand larceny.
~ Unknown
You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.
~ Tom Spanbauer
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on?
~ Tom Waits
There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.
~ Tom Waits
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
~ Tom Waits
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...
~ Tom Waits
You got to tell me brave captain, why are the wicked so strong, how do the angels get to sleep, when the devil leaves the porchlight on.
~ Tom Waits
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
~ Tom Waits
there ain't no devil, it's just God when he's drunk.
~ Tom Waits
don't you know there ain't No devil, there's just god when he's drunk...
~ Tom Waits
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~ Tom Wilson
All I'm saying is that Dove Chocolate taste way better than Dove soap. Don't ask me how I know!
~ Unknown
Most people would rather take the easy road than the high road.
~ Unknown
Strangers have the best candy.
~ Unknown