Quotes About Temptation

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.