Piers Anthony Quotes

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

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

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

were you sleeping?" He chuckles. "Not by a long shot. I was just tryin' to convince myself not to make a move on you.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.

Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

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.

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.

The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones

We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.

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.

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.