Quotes About Temptation

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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

You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known three centuries, poets sing, Of dalliance with a demon thing.

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse.

Les 'hommes de bonne volonté', feel Their politics perhaps unreal And all they have believed untrue, Are tempted to surrender to The grand apocalyptic dream In which the persecutors scream

SAMUEL: Besides, we can offer you but little temptation to remain with us. We don't seem to make piracy pay. I'm sure I don't know why, but we don't.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.