Temptation Quotes

22 quotations about Temptation

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

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

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

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

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

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

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

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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