A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. – Ring Lardner
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? – Robert Browning
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. – Robert South
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. – Roger Mahony
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. – T. S. Eliot
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to – look the other way. – Ugo Betti
As for writing about temptation, there’s no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. – Tom Perrotta
A lot of times, I’ll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie’s about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer. – Tom McCarthy
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt