Oscar Wilde Yield Quotations

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to

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

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.