Vikram Bhatt Quotes

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

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this.

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.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.

Passion, prejudice, and error, are characteristics of human nature ….. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice.

I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

None of us don't have a vice.

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

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.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.