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Temptation Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
- The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
- I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
- I can resist everything except temptation.
- Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and…
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
- 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…
- The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
- Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
- By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
- Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
- Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might… — Theodore Bikel
- For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous… — Erma Bombeck
- People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available… — Katherine Boo
- Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of… — Robert Bork
- I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products… — Anthony Bourdain
- Temptation to behave is terrible. — Bertolt Brecht
- Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. — Rita Mae Brown