Quotes About Temptation

I rarely drink, but there are times when even drinking too much is not enough.

December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.

Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.

Witch's spell or not, he would take her, possess her- own her. It wasn't his intent when he kissed her. Fires of damnation! He never planned to kiss the wench! It just...happened.

The meager splash of charm he rationed with that ripped body and sexy swagger, made him nearly impossible to resist.

Living in Paris might kill her, but it was a good way to die.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. Codeine...bourbon... (Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words).

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself, just as in the avenue de Foy our dissolute youths follow close on the heels of some strumpet, then leave her to pursue another, attacking all of them and attaching themselves to none. My thoughts are my strumpets.

Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.

Her midriff bare, like the denizen...of some pampering seraglio.

She took my heat. Traded it to the devil for some bauble.

If I could drink liquor without being drunk all the time, I'd certainly drink enough to be drunk half the time.

You know there is a cycle of imagining and desire, desire and death, death and birth, birth and imagining. And we have been tempted into its mouth. And it has swallowed us.

Around these strange people I felt hungry. I smelled some kind of debauchery, the whiff of a potion that would banish everything plaguing me.

People entering the bars on First Avenue gave up their bodies. Then only the demons inhabiting us could be seen.

It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.

It's the sea, some men take to it. Some men it takes.

When she found his eyes, hers were fuller and sharper, lit with something that had entered the world centuries before civilized things. "I get off at midnight," she said.

Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The

Qualsiasi cosa tu abbia intenzione di fare, Teddy, non prendere quelle pillole.

People who know the difference between right and wrong do the wrong thing all the time. You know why? Because they can.

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

While a pure mind may be a saintly ideal, for the rest of us mortals controlling our behavior is an enormous enough achievement.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do