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Quotes About Tempting

In spite of rumourd, I haven't completely gone to the darkside yet. But damn, those cookies are good. Come to the dark side. We have cookies.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Adrienne snatched an hors d'oeuvre from a passing tray. She had eaten a sausage grinder for family meal but this food was too gorgeous to pass up. She stopped at the buffet table and dipped a crab claw in a lemony mayonnaise. Her champagne was icee cold; it was crisp, like an apple. Across the tent, she saw Darla Parrish and her sister Eleanor standing in front of a table where a man was slicing gravlax.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
It was a delicious rumor. Will resolved to spread it at every opportunity.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The scent is hot wine, acidic and intense. Spicy, irresistible.
~ Elizabeth Bear
beautifully fresh-looking which will at the same time arouse your appetite and put you in good spirits
~ Elizabeth David
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
~ George Eliot
I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
~ James Woods
When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.
~ John T. Chambers
If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
~ Sara Sheridan
The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
~ Mark Twain
Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
~ Anthony Burgess
There are no antiquities in my case — not even an independent curl nor a bit of loose ivory. Her insipid years have been devoted to the ironmonger, and she is now as tempting a daughter of Eve as ever made a man's heart beat uneasy beneath his sword belt. She ought to have been a sort of relative of yours, Steinmark.
~ Anthony Trollope
Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ... and wrong.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Unfortunately, even as he removed his shirt to reveal shoulders good enough to make a girl go slack-jawed, his only thought was of the errant au gratin potato. "Here you go, Doll," he said, holding his shirt out to her. "Maybe you could get that cheese out, before it's too late.
~ Ellen Baker
It was a nice voice, smooth and deep as double chocolate ice cream.
~ Ellen Datlow
It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.
~ Graham Coxon
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
~ David Garrick
When we were doing 'Criminal Justice,' they were filming 'Clash of the Titans' nearby and we kept nicking off to their catering tent and going, 'Look what they've got!'
~ Maxine Peake
Zing took a bite of the ice cream and her taste buds nearly fainted. Was it possible for a tongue to have an orgasm? If so, hers just had.
~ Saxon Bennett
Level 7 Selling Our Souls for a Video Game, Part One
~ Scott Douglas
My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
~ Lady Gaga
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
~ Mark Twain