George Eliot Temptation Quotations

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.