Famous quotes containing the word tempt:
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Adriana. With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?
Luciana. With words that in an honest suit might move.
First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)