William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Temptation

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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Temptation, Neighbor, Accounts

William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.377

That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Prayer, Thinking, Temptation

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.5638, Delphi Classics

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fashion, Men, Temptation

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38