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21 quotes

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · 1937

★ 7.0

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:4-5

1405 BC

★ 5.4

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?

Chief Wiggum

The Simpsons · 1998

★ 5.4

Play · Comedy (play)

The flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 5.1

Scripture · Religious literature

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:13-14

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Genesis 3:6

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:16-17

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Novel

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1893

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Against my soul's pure truth why labor you To make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors · 1594

★ 3.7

Play · History (play)

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 3.6

Novel

I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.

William Beckford

Vathek · 1786

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Ornament is but the guilèd shore To a most dangerous sea.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 3.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

The primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth · 1616

★ 3.0

Poem

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Lord Byron

Don Juan · 1819

★ 2.2

Novel · Magazine

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.2

Novel · Magazine

Anybody can be good in the country.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

Genesis 39:12

1405 BC

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

James 1:12

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

When in recollection he withdraws all his senses from the attractions of the pleasures of sense, even as a tortoise withdraws all his limbs, then his is a serene wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.0

Poem · Epic poem

Come hither, renowned Odysseus, hither, you pride and glory of all Achaea! Pause with your ship; listen to our song. Never has any man passed this way in his dark vessel and left unheard the honey-sweet music from our lips; first he has taken his delight, then gone on his way a wiser man. We know of all the sorrows in the wide land of Troy that Argives and Trojans bore because the gods would needs have it so; we know of all things that come to pass on the fruitful earth.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 1.4

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