Quotes About Temptation

The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Cúpoles la ración de dos copas por estómago: a la segunda quedó abierto el apetito del copeo, y las botellas fueron llegando una tras otra a pedimento de don Sebastián.

Well I'm running down the road Tryin' to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind, Four that wanna own me, Two that wanna stone me, One says she's a friend of mine.

Love for sale,Appetizing young love for sale.Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,Love that's only slightly soiled,Love for sale.

Youth is not the age to seduce, it's the age to be seduced.

Tu es comme l'odeur des roses (…) tu ôtes l'appétit.

Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to shake it off, Max." Morse turned over a page. "And you don't improve much either, do you? You've been examining all our bloody corpses for donkey's years, and you still refuse to tell us when they died.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.

The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.

Ik ben zo gek op sigaretten dat ik soms zin krijg om niet-rokers op hun bakkes te slaan.

Calvin remarks that Satan makes us blind to our sins. Satan knows how to ensnare people in all kinds of traps so well that, according to the Genevan, there is scarcely anyone with an adequate conviction of sin.

She became aware of his hands, moving up both sides of her, sliding up from her waist to her rib cage. Bad news. Instinctively she knew that it was "either-or." Either she opened her mouth and let the mad tongue in--or he was going to, sure as God made little apples, grab her little apples. The choice, she knew, was hers--for he lingered there, simultaneously, in both areas of combat, as if to say, "You have five seconds, take your pick.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. —George Eliot

It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world.

there are liasons which would put yours in the shade...

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

You must, of course. Robespierre doesn't lie or cheat or steal, doesn't get drunk, doesn't fornicate—overmuch. He's not a hedonist or a mainchancer or a breaker of promises." Danton grinned. "But what's the use of all this goodness? People don't try to emulate you. Instead they just pull the wool over your eyes.

Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case, perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife's head does not arise every year.

Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.