Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William Shakespeare

Temptation to behave is terrible.
Bertolt Brecht

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.
Kathy Griffin

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry A. Kissinger

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
Ugo Betti

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F. H. Bradley

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
Fred Barnes

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Jane Byrne

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
George A. Smith

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

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

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
David McCullough