490 Quotes About Temptation

Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one else did. Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope's ends to the mast itself. If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still.

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

A woman reading is a grave temptation.

Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn’t resist the challenge.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

Saintliness is also a temptation.