Top 72 You Tempt Me Quotes
#1. You tempt me beyond reason." Her heart sped up. Indeed he tempted her beyond reason too.
Vonda Sinclair
#2. Sweetheart." He let out a serrated breath. "You tempt me just by being in the same room with me.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.
Donald G. Firesmith
#5. Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
Margaret Atwood
#6. Never tempt a man beyond what he can endure.
Brent Weeks
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
William Shakespeare
#13. 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
#14. The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
George Eliot
#15. Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.
Hilda Doolittle
#17. 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
#18. You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me.
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please.
William Shakespeare
#19. 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
#20. In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.
Henry A. Kissinger
#21. O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#22. Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself."
"Are you trying to tempt me?"
"Ha-ha.
Rick Riordan
#23. Are you certain they will manage without me?" "We will be back in only a few hours. How bad can it get?" "Don't tempt fate, my love.
Gail Carriger
#24. You have become my own personal demon. You haunt me, tempt me, drive me mad with wanting you, and I can no longer blame prophecies or powers or fate. It's just you. I have chosen you.
Kristina Douglas
#25. You're so immature." "Blue hair. That's all I'm saying." "Bite me, dead girl." I showed fang and winked at her. "Don't tempt me, witch.
Chloe Neill
#26. Don't worry Toots, I told ya before, you don't have the right equipment to tempt me but if my tastes ever change from muscle to moobs then I might jump you.
Stephanie Hudson
#27. Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#28. I know these things. I'm always right. It's got nothing to do with logic: I just feel it. For example, when I'm really close to you like this, I'm not the least bit scared. Nothing dark or evil could ever tempt me.
Haruki Murakami
#29. The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#30. 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
#31. Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
Nikolai Gogol
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed.
Sam Byers
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
Zoe Sugg
#39. Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. You tempt the devil," he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. "Angels always do.
Bijou Hunter
#44. 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
#45. Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
Jean-Paul Aron
#46. 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
#47. I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.
Marty Rubin
#48. Enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by
Jane Austen
#49. The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. All that I wanted was to tempt into life things that wanted to come out of me.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human.
One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.
Toba Beta
#59. If he's dumb enough to tempt a woman wielding a knife, then he deserves everything after that.
Lora Leigh
#60. The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
Jeremy Taylor
#61. The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin
Wayne Grudem
#62. He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.
Oscar Wilde
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Do not flatter yourself. You cannot tempt me.
Franca Storm
#69. 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
#70. It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
Wilson Mizner
#71. 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
#72. 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
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