Top 100 Quotes About Tempt
#1. Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#2. Do he return to the sea?"
They both knew they were no longer discussing the book. "That remains to be seen. There might be something that could tempt him to stay.
Nicole Castroman
#3. All that I wanted was to tempt into life things that wanted to come out of me.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#4. Olivia, I'll put on a show in front of your friends, at your work, whenever we're in public. But I'm growing tired of pretending when we're alone. Don't tempt me.
Jessica Hawkins
#5. To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
Midori Snyder
#7. The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile
#8. Enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by
Jane Austen
#9. There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
Zoe Sugg
#10. Don't go any farther, Miss Marina," warned Stanley, a half-grin on his face. " 'Tempt ye not the dragon's wrath when his claws are yet to retreat.' Dragon claws ya just can't mess with.
Kenzie Kovacs-Szabo
#11. Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
Jean-Paul Aron
#12. Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchhausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.
Keith Buckley
#13. You tempt the devil," he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. "Angels always do.
Bijou Hunter
#14. Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
Philip Roth
#15. Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end."
"You haven't killed me yet," I noted.
"Don't tempt me.
Rick Riordan
#16. People often think the Devil tries to influence people to do "bad things." While this is true, the demonic strategy is also much deeper. He tries to tempt us to get our needs met without relationship and without humility, the way he wanted to in the beginning.
Henry Cloud
#17. Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#18. I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.
Marty Rubin
#19. Are you smelling me?" After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have.
"Don't tempt me," he murmured.
Deborah Harkness
#20. many things tempt our hearts to put them first and God second. We must root out the desire to worship these things and focus on the true God. The
Richard J. Foster
#21. It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
Wilson Mizner
#22. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.
Jim Berg
#23. Do not flatter yourself. You cannot tempt me.
Franca Storm
#24. I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.
Alexander Spotswood
#26. Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. Kaitlyn is that kind of girl that might be too interesting, might tempt you to get involved ... A girl who challenged him, who could be my equal ... Her mind was a place of blue pools and blazing meteors ... She stood slim and proud as some medival witch princess against dawn.
-Gabriel
L.J.Smith
#28. The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
Hilaire Belloc
#29. He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.
Oscar Wilde
#30. [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
Elisabeth Elliot
#31. The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin
Wayne Grudem
#32. The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
Jeremy Taylor
#33. If he's dumb enough to tempt a woman wielding a knife, then he deserves everything after that.
Lora Leigh
#34. Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human.
One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.
Toba Beta
#35. When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
Ethan Hawke
#36. Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
#37. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.
Donald G. Firesmith
#38. We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.
Laurence Fishburne
#39. You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me.
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please.
William Shakespeare
#40. I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.
Dean Koontz
#42. Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.
Hilda Doolittle
#43. The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
George Eliot
#44. True nobleness in soul is only evinced in never suffering station to tempt us into a forgetfulness of ourselves and of what we owe to others.
John Tyler
#45. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
William Shakespeare
#46. Women all have the same female pretentions and even the most virtuous among them like to convince themselves that they can tempt a man.
Gabriel Chevallier
#47. Reflection is a dangerous pastime. It can lead you to rewrite your past, alter how you see your present, and tempt you down paths you never imagined you would explore.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#48. You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.
Ayn Rand
#49. Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Alexander Pope
#50. What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#51. Never tempt a man beyond what he can endure.
Brent Weeks
#52. Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
Margaret Atwood
#54. It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get. Notice that I didn't say couldn't get worse. It can always get worse. I know this. And thus I refuse to tempt fate. Superstitious - probably. But magic exists. So does karma, and karma can be a bitch.
Cat Adams
#55. To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.
Isaac Watts
#56. Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For I am sick when I do look on you.212 Hel. And I am sick when I look not on you.
William Shakespeare
#57. His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed.
Sam Byers
#58. It might do wonders for your marriage," Amelia continued. "It's lovely to talk to your husband after you've been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything." - Amelia to Poppy
Lisa Kleypas
#59. [H]is gentle horses graze on fertile grasses and tempt me to ride off in search of answers to what if and what's out there and why not. Where everything around me hints there is more to offer but tells me time and again ... not for me.
Julie Cantrell
#61. When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something.
Marty Rubin
#62. To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong.
Gena Showalter
#64. I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
Richard G. Scott
#66. When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.
James Montgomery
#67. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#69. Charm, amuse, inspire, tempt, overwhelm, dazzle. Will you earn reward? (195)
Arthur Phillips
#70. Don't tempt the devil darling. He'll give you the worse bits you asked for, plus what you couldn't even imagine.
Naomi Jackson
#72. The view, as I have said, is charming; but in the day you must keep the lattice-blinds close shut, or the sun would drive you mad; and when the sun goes down you must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So
Charles Dickens
#73. My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify.
A.R. Von
#74. All right, I say. I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?
Margaret Atwood
#75. Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
Henry A. Kissinger
#76. I also stopped wearing jewelry because I asked myself, What are these baubles which tempt me? Why should I lose my character for a few metal trinkets?
Malala Yousafzai
#77. The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.
Frederick Douglass
#78. That was just like a demon. Tempt mankind with their weaknesses, play them for fools, then condemn them and spread guilt like a plague...
K.L. Burrell
#79. When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
W. Clement Stone
#80. Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.
Lillete Dubey
#81. The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?
Leonard Ravenhill
#82. For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.
Robert K. Massie
#83. I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
#84. There is a sense that we are waiting for something, that however wonderful something is, there is something else waiting to tempt us; however perfect someone is, someone else might be better, more suitable, more fun, better in bed. Whatever road you chose you may just have easily chosen another.
Chloe Thurlow
#85. A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#86. Nothing I have will tempt you?" King Herla murmured.
Lin could only shake her head.
"Then perhaps I should offer myself," Herla said as he sank to his knees before her. "Wonderful girl, will you have me as your husband?"
"Oh, yes," Lin said.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#87. Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe.
Rick Riordan
#88. Don't tempt me. Now, what are you wearing?"
"A hoodie and drawstring pants too, I guess.""Anything underneath?"
"I don't typically walk around without underwear."
"Typically?"
"Only on special occasions."
"Christ. I meant under your hoodie
Michelle Hodkin
#89. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.
Horace
#90. Plus, she had centuries of sexual experience over this hard-up virgin novice. Though she'd never take it too far, she could tempt him up to a point. She'd run circles around him, wrapping him around her little finger.
Kresley Cole
#91. He leaned over her shoulder, until his mouth was at her tingling ear. "Perhaps I'll appear at your window one midnight," he whispered, "to tempt you for a ride across earth and ocean.
Lisa Kleypas
#92. With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
Henry B. Eyring
#93. From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
Charles Caleb Colton
#94. His bladder burned, but he didn't care. Nothing would tempt him outside, not and risk being taken back to that horrible place. This little hut wasn't much bigger than his cage, but he was free here, and that mattered more than anything.
L.J. McDonald
#95. Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if you're okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.
Paul Schneider
#97. Answer: They war loving, they love laughing, they laugh weeping, they weep smelling, they smell smiling, they smile hating, they hate thinking, they think feeling, they feel tempting, they tempt daring, they dare waiting, they wait taking, they take thanking, they thank seeking, (...)
James Joyce
#98. I'm going to destroy you, princess. I'll toy with you, tempt you, and give you everything you never knew to ask for.
Setta Jay
#99. You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"
His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.
His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers
Kristen Callihan
#100. To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
