Quotes About Temptation

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits …

The sky was an unspoiled blue. I breathed the fragrant sage and the homey smell from wood fires. Our problems seemed distant, and I wondered if it would be a crime if we played hooky from saving the world.

Qué cosa aburrida debe ser el pecar cuando se es ateo!

La vida es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes.

Terapia Para no sucumbir ante la tentación del precipicio el mejor tratamiento es el fornicio.

Reconozco que ésa era la preocupación que tenía cuando estaba vivo: hasta dónde podría aguantar. Porque cuando uno está vivo, quiere seguir viviendo, y eso es siempre una tentación peligrosa. En cambio, la tentación se acaba cuando uno sabe que está muerto.

God warriors do not linger in temptation. They never test their strength against lust-they run!

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul." Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Denial, particularly self-denial, is its own kind of pleasure.

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Avoiding the Scylla of the nunnery, Hermia sails dangerously close to the Charybdis of Titania's lust for the ass-headed Bottom, but emerges safely, and somewhat more self-knowledgeably, into the orderly harbor of marriage.