“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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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
“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Written on the Body
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