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

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

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

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

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

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

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.

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

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

As a young man, the temptation was to drink the minibar dry. I did all that - now I prefer to get outdoors.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Temptation to behave is terrible.