Quotes About Temptation

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

Once upon a time, before pizzerias or Taco Bells, there was a troll named Rumpelstiltskin who began to wonder what a human baby would taste like.

Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their nature, which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets."

[On adultery:] A most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.

How can you not help having sex with someone?

Kermit, the voice in my head wants me to take you out in the woods and eat your liver,

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy, I've done it a thousand times.

If Falstaff had stuck to martinis, he'd be with us today.

Sometimes we have undesirable habits and we want to correct them. And there are times when we are strongly tempted to do wrong. Then, like an insect caught in a spider's web, we struggle to get free. Our conscious will is in conflict with our imagination and the will of our subconscious mind. The more we struggle, the more we become entrapped.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe'sWe drank our liquor straight,Some went upstairs with Margery,And some, alas, with Kate.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Man is a tempted being, living with what he does and suffers in time, the medium in which he realizes his potential character. The indeterminacy of time means that events never happen once and for all. The good may fall, the bad may repent, and suffering can be, not a simple retribution, but a triumph.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.