Temptation By Oscar Wilde Quotes & Sayings

I can resist anything but temptation. — Oscar Wilde

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. — Oscar Wilde

The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde

A tiny fly can choke a big man. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain? — Frank Harris

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. — Oscar Wilde

resist nothing but temptation — Oscar Wilde

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. — Katharine Whitehorn

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. — Oscar Wilde

Can we really choose anything?'
'Maybe. If we want to bad enough. — Isaac Marion

It's my opinion he don't want to kill you,' said Perea - 'at least not yet. I've heard deir idea is to scar and worry a man wid deir spells, and narrow misses, and rheumatic pains, and bad dreams, and all dat, until he's sick of life. Of course, it's all talk, you know. You mustn't worry about it. But I wunder what he'll be up to next.'
'I shall have to be up to something first,' said Pollock, staring gloomily at the greasy cards that Perea was putting on the table. 'It don't suit my dignity to be followed about, and shot at, and blighted in this way. I wonder if Porroh hokey-pokey upsets your luck at cards.'
He looked at Perea suspiciously.
'Very likely it does,' said Perea warmly, shuffling. 'Dey are wonderful people.'
("Pollock And The Porrah Man") — H.G.Wells

Walking away from you with a broken heart is easier to handle than selling my soul to make love with you. I'm sorry, Adrian. I might be lonely, and naive, and all the things you think about me. But I'm also true to myself, and I won't denigrate my feelings for you. They're much too precious in a world that offers so little love. — Shelby Reed

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. — Oscar Wilde

I don't say goodbye unless I think it's final. — Shannon A. Thompson

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. — Oscar Wilde

Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage. — Oscar Wilde

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation. — Don Winslow

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. — Madeleine L'Engle

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. — Oscar Wilde

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation, is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde

The only thing I can't resist is temptation. — Oscar Wilde

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

I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it? — Dennis Nilsen

Talent is truth on display. — Terry Rossio

I can resist everything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids. — Lela Rose

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book. — C.S. Lewis

The only way to rid yourself of temptation, is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde