Quotes of Temptation - somelinesforyou

“ Good habits result from resisting temptation. ”

- Ancient Proverb

“ Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ”

- Bible

“ I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ”

- Lane Olinghouse

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

- Mae West

“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I can resist anything but temptation. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

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

- Robert Browning

“ Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ”

- Robert Orben

“ The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. ”

- W. N. Taylor

“ Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. ”

- W. N. Taylor

“ 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. ”

- Bible

“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Why resist temptation? There will always be more. ”

- Don Herold

“ How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.... Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. ”

- Horace Mann

“ 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. ”

- Bible

“ It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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
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