“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
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
“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
“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)
“Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“No sick man's monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won't say it's true.”
Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
Marcus Terentius Varro (-116–-27 BC) ancient latin scholar
Eumenides, fragment 6, from Saturae Menippeae; translation from J. Wight Duff Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964) p. 90.
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899), The Man With the Hoe (1898)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Letter to Lucy Martin Donnely, July 6, 1902
1900s
