Quotes with temptation

Quotes 41 till 50 of 50.

  • Walter Lippmann There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Lane Olinghouse Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Virtue is insufficient temptation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Hazlitt We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Thomas à Kempis We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Marianne Moore When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Robert Browning Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Don Herold Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Anthony Hope You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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