O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you, Aunt Lydia used to say.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
I can resist everything except temptation.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
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 Lord Arthur Goring]
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.[to Escalus]
