| Author |
Quotes |
| Anonymous | Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. |
| Eduardo Galeano | We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. |
| Georg C Lichtenberg | The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. |
| James Branch Cabell | There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. |
| Joseph De Maistre | 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. |
| Margaret Oliphant | Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. |
| Robert Orben | Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch |
| T S Eliot | The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. |
| W N Taylor | Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Virtue is insufficient temptation. |
| H L Mencken | Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. |
| John Milton | Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. |
| 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. |
| Robert Browning | Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? |
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