Yield

Famous quotes containing the word yield:

“Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“You oughtn’t to yield to temptation.
Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”
—Anthony Hope (1863–1933)

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)