Famous quotes containing the word temptation:
“If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)