Famous quotes containing the word tempt:
“I am not sure but all that would tempt me to teach the Indian my religion would be his promise to teach me his.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Don’t crouch any more and cling to my knees,
don’t tempt me and try me,
don’t beg like a child and cry,
“you have taken my hope away.”
I am not a god.
I cannot make you happy.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman’s face, or worse
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)