“Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.”

—  Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Sir Robert Chiltern, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 27, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptati…" by Oscar Wilde?
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Related quotes

Ambrose Bierce photo

“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.

Honoré de Balzac photo

“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)

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“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)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“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

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

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

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

F. H. Bradley photo

“The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”

F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) British philosopher

No. 75.
Aphorisms (1930)

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

Anthony Fauci photo

“You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I’ve seen really good people do that.”

Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Quoted in 'You don't want to go to war with a president' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/anthony-fauci-trump-coronavirus-crisis-118961, 3 March 2020, Politico

Related topics