Temptation

Famous quotes containing the word temptation:

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)

“O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,
With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)