Temptation Quotes

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. (George Bernard Shaw)
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? View quote
Robert Browning
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. View quote
James Branch Cabell
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Saintliness is also a temptation. View quote
Jean Anouilh
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. View quote
Mae West
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. (Anthony Trollope)
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. View quote
Thomas Merton
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. View quote
F. H. Bradley
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. View quote
Northrop Frye
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. View quote
Matthew Henry
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. View quote
Mark Twain
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. View quote
Ring Lardner
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. View quote
John Locke
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. View quote
Umberto Eco
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. View quote
James A. Michener
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. View quote
William Butler Yeats
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