“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”

“Angels can't be pure beings if they can't even resist the temptation of humans. Being tempted too; shows the existence of free-will.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.”

William Beckford book Vathek

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“… for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

“Words impede and either kill, or are killed by, perfect thought; but they are, as a scaffolding, useful, if not indispensable, for the building up of imperfect thought and helping to perfect it.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”

Karen Chance American writer

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author