Jane Porter Quotes

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.