Tempt Quotes

108 quotes by 91 authors

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.… — Milan Kundera
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who… — Jane Austen
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. — Philip Roth
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food,… — Frederick Douglass
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and… — C.S. Lewis
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out;… — Thomas Aquinas
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get… — Agatha Christie
I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself."… — Rick Riordan
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of… — Elisabeth Elliot
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank… — Immanuel Kant
To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong. — Gena Showalter
Are you smelling me?â€ After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. â€œDon't… — Deborah Harkness
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to… — Jonathan Edwards
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind,… — Marie Lu
Tempt not a desperate man — William Shakespeare
One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is… — Sam Harris
You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i was drawn in.Everything… — Abbi Glines
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the… — Henry David Thoreau

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