“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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American science fiction author 1907–1988Related 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)
“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)
“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
“Strew gladness on the paths of men—
You will not pass this way again.”
Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911) American writer
I shall not pass this Way again, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The title of this poem derives from a saying of William Penn.