Address to the Unco Guid, st. 6 (1787)
“I am tormented by temptations."
"What kind? There is a cure for temptation."
"What?"
"Yielding to it.”
Je suis tourmenté par de mauvaises idées.
— En quel genre? Ça se guérit, les idées.
- Comment?
- En y succombant.
Part II.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Temptation requires definite, decisive action.”
Billy Graham in Quotes
“The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.”
As quoted in Forbes (4 August 1980).
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.”
City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Biographical Studies (1907)
