best quotations about
Temptation |

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Quotations
![]() | I can resist anything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 11 likes |
![]() | There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 10 likes |
![]() | The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
![]() | I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 6 likes |
![]() | The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
![]() | Good angels are fallible – they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 1 likes |
![]() | The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 1 likes |
![]() | Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
![]() | Death, the last temptation. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
![]() | One of the most common temptations, which leads to serious trouble, is the temptation of the words: “Everyone does it that way.” — Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
![]() | The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 6 likes |
Proverbs
![]() | The poor man’s temptation is a loaf of bread. 5 likes |

















