TEMPTATION Quotes

We are all mortal until the first kiss
and the second glass of wine.
?Eduardo Galeano

We usually know what we can do,
but temptation shows us who we are.
?Thomas ã Kempis

The most successful tempters
and thus the most dangerous
are the deluded deluders.
?Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is so muddled, so dependent
on the things immediately before
his eyes, that every day even the
most submissive believer can
be seen to risk the torments of the
afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
? Joseph De Maistre

Temptation is a woman's weapon
and man's excuse.
?H. L. Mencken

Taste this, and be henceforth
among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
?John Milton

Temptations come, as a general
rule, when they are sought.
?Margaret Oliphant

I generally avoid temptation
unless I can't resist it.
?Mae West

Most people would like to be
delivered from temptation but
would like it to keep in touch
?Robert Orben

The only way to get rid of a temptation
is to yield to it. Resist it, and your
soul grows sick with longing for the
things it has forbidden to itself.
?Oscar Wilde

Temptation rarely comes in working
hours. It is in their leisure time
that men are made or marred.
?W N Taylor

The last temptation is the greatest treason:
to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
?T S Eliot

Why comes temptation, but for
man to meet and master and
crouch beneath his foot, and so
be pedestaled in triumph?
?Robert Browning

Blessed is the man that endureth
temptation: for when he is tried,
he shall receive the crown of life.
?New Testament
James, Chapter 1, Verse 12:

There is not any memory with less
satisfaction than the memory
of some temptation we resisted.
?James Branch Cabell

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
?George Bernard Shaw

Opportunity may knock only once,
but temptation leans on the doorbell.
?Anonymous