Temptation Quotes

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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Oscar Wilde

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

William Shakespeare

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Toba Beta

Tempt not a desperate man.

William Shakespeare

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.George MacDonald

George MacDonald

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

William Shakespeare

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

Mark Twain

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Oscar Wilde

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

Samuel Johnson

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Ovid

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

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants

Neil Gaiman

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

John Webster, White Devil (act V

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

William Shakespeare

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

John Milton

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

Oscar Wilde

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...

C.S. Lewis

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

Margaret Oliphant

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb