Temptation Quote by John Dryden Download Open image ““Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. ”” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Temptation
“All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Popularity was an attractive snare. Only fools wanted attention at the expense of peace.” — Bremer Acosta Copy Share Image
“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.” — E.J. Patten Copy Share Image
“Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray. God, and not we, hath safely fought to day.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is… — Charles S. Brooks Copy Share Image
“do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden 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
