Quotes About Tempting

A los ídolos no hay que tocarlos: se queda el dorado en las manos.

Well, then I will go on, however painful it may be to me to recall those terrible memories. What temptations! What trials! The devil often makes use of the most innocent things to lead a man astray.

It has often been said that the British acquired their empire in a fit of absent-mindedness, as consequence of automatic trends, yielding to what seemed possible and what was tempting, rather than as a result of deliberate policy. If this is true, then the road to hell may just as well be paved with no intentions as with the proverbial good ones.

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

He did not look like an archangel—if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.

Miss Holmes eyed a third slice of Madeira cake, but did not reach for it—possibly because she was approaching Maximum Tolerable Chins, the point at which she began regulating further helpings of cakes and puddings.

Poets, I dare you to choose, for one night, the ambrosia over the ashes.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I thought of myself hanging in the store, as a mote imprisoned on a shaft of sunlight. Pushed and pulled by the slightest shift of air, but never falling free into the tempting darkness.

beef ragout, a bubbling and airy cheese soufflé, luscious and crispy roast chickens, mashed potatoes that had little pools of melted butter.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

He gave her the kind of slow, sexy grin that had, for centuries, caused women to make very bad choices.

Of course I want you there. But…we're Irish. We get drunk and say stupid things. I can't guarantee that someone there tonight won't say something stupid." It was tempting to answer, "I'm English. We stay sober, kick ass, and enslave your lot for eight hundred years." That would not have reduced his stress level any.

You sure, because It looks like he could be draped across a buffet table and drizzled with chocolate.

Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this young woman's fears were justified! Beamabeth Marlebourne would be unlikely to threaten anybody, locked away inside the Luck's cell for the rest of her life. Such a fate had a tempting poetry to it too, given that she really was the Luck of Toll, and had been all her life.

Said she had a body that could knock a movie rating from PG to R. So

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

Liam's hash brown casserole can only be described as so over-the-top ridiculous I fear Paula Deen is sitting somewhere cackling about it. I can tell that there is cheese, butter, and sour cream in there, and do not want to know what else. It is delicious, as are the perfectly dried eggs, crispy bacon, buttery toast, and juicy sausages. The muffins are banana chocolate chip, otherwise known as breakfast cake.

took him to a place where they poured honey on

I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I am a teetotaler but I have to say that the film business is intoxicating.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'