Quotes about Temptation

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same.

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up. I should have committed murder—I know I should—if we'd caught one of them rascals.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.