Oscar Wilde Quotes

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

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