Quotes About Temptation

She turned before him slowly, showing the lushness of her figure as if she were roasting on a spit.

Per un attimo Odisseo quasi mi piacque. Ma ormai avevo visto i suoi sorrisi una volta di troppo.

few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them, and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed.

Las rígidas tiras de cuero se hundieron en la suave piel cuyos contornos yo había seguido con el dedo aquella misma noche. Las manos me temblaron, ávidas de deshacer las tensas correas y liberarle, pero no lo hice.

She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. She was so close I could smell her, seawater laced with dark brown honey. I did not breathe. I did not dare.

It softened him. This was a more pleasing tale: the princess swooning at his feet, forswearing her cruel father to be with him. Coming to him at night, in secret, that face of hers the only light. Who could say no?

Do you want to be a god?" It was easier this time. "Not yet," he said. A tightness I had not known was there eased a little. I would not lose him yet.

Es posible domesticar una serpiente para que coma de tu mano, pero nadie le va a quitar las ganas de morder.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

Why don't you come up sometime and see me?… Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.

You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.

Silverman also contends that a baby's demands on the mother can be "very flattering to the mother's narcissism, since it attributes to her the capacity to satisfy her infant's lack, and so—by extension—her own. Since most women in our culture are egoically wounded, the temptation to bathe in the sun of this idealization often proves irresistible.

Sam: You—you greatly overestimate my self-control." Grace: I'm not looking for self-control.

They want time to move fast so they can paint their nails a provocative red and wear high heels that crack walnuts and make people jump. He wants time to slow down so he can prolong the enjoyment of walking among them, of being next to this self-contained beauty.

look, lust, and leave, knowing I could never have one of them for myself.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.