Quotes About Temptation

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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.