Tempt

Famous quotes containing the word tempt:

“Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“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 [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

“What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
And draw you into madness?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)