Tempted Quotes

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Don't wear bacon cologne. If you put on...you know what? Screw it. Wear it. If you are the type of guy who is tempted to wear bacon cologne, it's not like you could get laid any less.

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.