“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”
Source: Dracula
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Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for… 1847–1912Related quotes

“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.”
Je n'aime pas à résister à la tentation.
Source: Vathek, P. 140; translation p. 83.

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

“The carnage was over, but there was still a bitter taste in my mouth.”
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2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”
Source: Embrace the Night

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

On his return as interim CEO of Apple, as quoted in TIME magazine (18 August 1997)
1990s