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Quotes About Temptation

Maybe I have thought intellect more important than faith. And now it seems this final temptation has been put in front of me.
~ Zadie Smith
To?i cei care gre?esc ?tiu din capul locului c? sunt pe cale s? fac? o gre?eal?, dar nu se pot ab?ine. Probabil c? surpriza e dat? doar de amploarea gre?elii. - RO (Trad. Ioana Petridean) Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence. - EN
~ Zeruya Shalev
A husband I may be, but the change is my mistress and I can never stray. -Leo Bailey Demons Bride
~ Zoe Archer
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
You won't git far and you won't be long, when dat big gut reach over and grab dat little one
~ Zora Neale Hurston
You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)
~ Zora Neale Hurston
the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I was heavily addicted to a game called 'Diablo II.'
~ Neil Robertson
It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
~ Keith Richards
Well, addiction does start with a choice.
~ David Sheff
I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.
~ Jimmy White
Social media can be so addictive.
~ Peyton List
Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.
~ Howard Jacobson
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I hate all adverts for alcohol. They're evil. All of them.
~ Lee Mack
I can eat Chipotle all day long for years.
~ Lennon Parham
The road which can be quite an allure when you are young.
~ Chris Hoy
There are moments where you can be seduced by Andrew Wiggins.
~ Doris Burke
I'm no angel.
~ Britt Ekland
Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.
~ Richard Phillips
Once more she urged me not to be dazzled by the glitter of society, to be always on my guard, especially against what most attracted me. This is the sum-total of her wisdom, and I can get nothing more out of her.
~ Honore de Balzac
But if the woman is young and pretty, if she enters a house in one of those streets, if the house has a long, dark, damp, and evil-smelling passage-way, at the end of which flickers the pallid gleam of an oil lamp, and if beneath that gleam appears the horrid face of a withered old woman with fleshless fingers, ah, then! and we say it in the interests of young and pretty women, that woman is lost. She is at the mercy of the first man of her acquaintance who sees her in that Parisian slough.
~ Honore de Balzac
Il avait vu les trois grandes expressions de la société : l'obéissance, la Lutte et la Révolte; la Famille, le Monde et Vautrin. Et il n'osait prendre parti. L'Obéissance était ennuyeuse, la Révolte impossible, et la Lutte incertaine. Sa
~ Honore de Balzac
Corruption has come to him with fortune, — as it always does!" he said to himself
~ Honore de Balzac