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Top Temptation Quotes

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

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All Temptation Quotes

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

69% of people like this quote

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

64% of people like this quote

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

63% of people like this quote

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

61% of people like this quote

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

60% of people like this quote

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Erma Bombeck

60% of people like this quote

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Mary Wortley Montagu

59% of people like this quote

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Joey Adams

59% of people like this quote

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

James L. Buckley

59% of people like this quote

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Robert South

58% of people like this quote