Temptation Quote by Jean Anouilh Download Open image “Saintliness is also a temptation.” — Jean Anouilh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Temptation
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The temptation is to face difficulties from a commonsense standpoint. The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Saintliness means turning pain to good account. It means forcing the devil to be God.” — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left. — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
