Quotes about Temptation

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

A kiss may ruin a human life

A burnt child loves the fire.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.