Oscar Wilde Quotes About Temptation
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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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.
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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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