“For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... 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.”
Catherine the Great
“The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank”
Jonathan Raban
“It may be that the members of the committee feel more tempted when they have met someone, heard them talk and been impressed.”
Stein Toennesson
“The calls keep coming but at the moment there is nothing that really tempts me, ... I was tempted when Fulham offered me the director of football last year.”
Chris Kamara
“As 'moral suasion' or veiled threats become less effective, it is not surprising that governments feel more tempted to use outright opposition.”
Mario Monti
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.”
William Shakespeare
