Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
James Allen

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Franklin P. Jones

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
James L. Buckley

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
John Gardner

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Arsene Wenger

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Jerry Falwell

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
John Owen

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday