Quotes About Temptation

You have no idea how difficult it was for me to not say, 'Welcome to Jurassic Park!' to all of you just now.

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

It was the black jellybeans that did it.

However, one always led with being nonbribable. It gave those attempting to bribe a sense of accomplishment.

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

They could get it, Doc said. They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very clever if they want something. They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in wanting.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Looks kinda scrummy

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all.

Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

In town in a whorehouse. That's where your money's goin'. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

Who wants to be good if he has to be hungry too?

You wouldn't lay a trap for me? Lee asked. My wish isn't as strong as it once was. I'm afraid I could be talked out of it or, what would be worse, I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have.

And Samuel could remember hearing of a cousin of his mother's in Ireland, a knight and rich and handsome, and anyway shot himself on a silken couch, sitting beside the most beautiful woman in the world who loved him. "There's a capacity for appetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.

Oh, but strawberries will never taste so good again and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

He was concupiscent as a rabbit and gentle as hell.

Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During

You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.

She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.

Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do 'em.

line between hunger and anger is a thin line.