“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.”
Clementina Stirling Graham (1782–1877) British writer
Mystifications, Ch. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=FKMIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22The+best+way+to+get+the+better+of+temptation+is+just+to+yield+to+it%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage "Soiree at Mr. Russell's" (1859)
“Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“I am tormented by temptations."
"What kind? There is a cure for temptation."
"What?"
"Yielding to it.”
Honoré de Balzac book Le Pere Goriot
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)
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films
“ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Context: Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
“What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”
P.G. Wodehouse book Carry On, Jeeves
Source: Carry on, Jeeves
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 16. How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland