Temptation

Famous quotes containing the word temptation:

“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)

“My temptation is quiet.
Here at life’s end
Neither loose imagination,
Nor the mill of the mind
Consuming its rag and bone,
Can make the truth known.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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