Quotes About Temptation and Vice

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors, and those of the poor and lonely for crimes.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Why resist temptation?  There will always be more.

— Don Herold

Get thee behind me, Satan.

— Matthew 16:23

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

— Matthew 26:41

The biggest temptation is...to settle for too little.

— Thomas Merton

I can resist everything except temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength, and courage to yield to.

— Oscar Wilde

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

I prefer a comfortable vice to a virtue that bores.

— Molire

His face was filled with broken commandments.

— John Masefield

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

— Thomas Paine

Man’s chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him.

— Ernest Jones

Vice is a coward; to be truly brave, a man must be truly good.

— Ignatius Sancho