Quotes About Temptation

Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

he was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.

Algumas mulheres são fortes o bastante para acreditarem nelas mesmas, mas eu precisei da sua ajuda para acreditar em mim. Talvez eu tenha resistido a uma grande tentação, mas foram as pequenas que acabaram me derrubando.

He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—

With golden giftes and many a guilefull word Entyced her, to him for accord. O who may not with gifts and words be tempted?

Was a glimpse of his cock worth a Mercedes?

Teenagers, flooded with destabilizing hormones and a longing for elsewhere, are particularly prone to the seductive power of dark narratives.

Guy's own erection was so hard it ached, as if it were an angry dog begging to be let out and pawing at the door.

Don't let him lead you astray, my child. He's such a wicked man, woof!

Sainthood to those who labor over a hard cock in vain.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

In the bodily garden the apple lurks.

I barely eat cake now. The one I'm sending you, make a hole on the top with a knitting needle and pour a glass of whiskey into it to keep it moist.

the younger Andronicus was speedily corrupted by his infant greatness

Ambition is a weed of quick and early vegetation in the vineyard of Christ.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.

he observed, "they're sure to go off whoring and get into trouble.

Every paradise demands a serpent.