Quotes About Temptation

Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severly for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

The land of milk and honey, Ghosh thought. Milk and honey, and love for money. Now

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?

the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.

I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.

The devil can't make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where

O nie! nie... nie... ?eby j? zabi?, Trzeba by? troch? wi?cej ni? pierwszym z szatanów! Precz to ?elazo! (chowa) niech j? w?asna pami?? goni, (Ksi?dz odchodzi) Niech j? sumienia sztylety rani?!

as though frustration were an unbearable form of self-doubt, a state in which we can so little tolerate not knowing what we want, not knowing whether it is available, and not having it that we fabricate certainties to fill the void (we fill in the gaps with states of conviction). The frustration is itself a temptation scene, one in which we must invent something to be tempted by.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

I had figured out that it was a bad idea, but, well, it´s hard to argue with love, even when it´s making you do something really stupid.

Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.

Good Lord, you would lead angels down a sinful path and they would follow joyously.

The woman who cherished her suffering is dead. I am her descendant. I love the scar-tissue she handed on to me, but I want to go on from here with you fighting the temptation to make a career of pain.

I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable.

I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.

I used to eat a lot of pasta and cookies, things like that. I really eat a lot. I'd eat everything if you let me.

I do like a savoury bake, I love a Gregg's savoury pastry more than something with the word chocolat in it.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.