Quotes About Temptation

The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.

The devil tells the best stories.

What else do men think about except sex and enemies?

You imagine the devil, you make the devil.

But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

He didn't want to go and look. But at the same time, a part of him wanted to look more than anything.

If you fight the devil, you become him." "Maybe it takes a devil to fight a devil," I said. "But at the end of that fight, Bathsheba," he said, "don't only devils remain?

The devil always outnumbers his foes," he said. "Even if he is alone.

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

The difference is that I think you never do it. Even if you're tempted, even if you're really close, because who knows? There might be more.

The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late...We are too eager to build devils. Is it only a matter of time before we are at war again?

Who knows what new devils we might create? And so now I tell you my story. Now is the time. For rumours swirl and oceans stir and in that maelstrom, I fear, devils will rise. Are rising. Have risen. The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...

it was when Arthur Sackler said it. Doctors are human, and the notion that donning a white coat might somehow shield them from temptation is a fantasy.

I am one of the most famous reformed junkies on the planet," she told Joss's nemesis, Page Six. "What is it about me that says to Joss Sackler, 'I will sell out to you?

Like a lot of people who use heroin, she found a certain glamour in it, until she didn't. She used the drug on and off for years, but in the late 1980s, it took over.

How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.

It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy.

Por muy atractiva que parezca una cosa, tienes que valorar los riesgos que corres. Cuánto lo deseas, cuánto estás dispuesto a quemarte.