Temptation Quotes

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

H. L. Mencken

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

William Shakespeare

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

Martin Luther

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

Orlando A. Battista

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

John Bunyan

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

Basil Bunting

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

Steve Maraboli

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

J.K. Rowling

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

Mae West

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. Psalms 119:9-11

Bible

He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecclesiasticus

Bible

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain

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

Thomas Kempis

Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Howie Carr

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

C.S. Lewis

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Francis H. Bradley

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

Eduardo Galeano

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Mark Twain

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde