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Quotes About Forbidden

You can't keep a devil locked up in the attic and expect to keep it to yourself forever.
~ Salman Rushdie
Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.
~ Alexandre Dumas
being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much
~ Alexandre Dumas
Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
No walking in the moonlight, no Ouija boards, no candles, no red shoes, no wearing black, no going shoeless, no amulets, no night-blooming flowers, no reading novels about magic, no cats, no crows, and no venturing below Fourteenth Street. Yet no matter
~ Alice Hoffman
Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It
~ Alice Hoffman
There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.
~ Alice Walker
conversation – about the weather, as that is what you like to talk about in England, other subjects being, er, forbidden, eh?
~ Alison Weir
Collin sat on a marble bench, chaste white, funereal, carved with the words PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT. When he opened his arms for Nina, a guard hurried over. "Sir! I'm sorry—you can't sit there!
~ Allegra Goodman
There is no fruit so sweet as the one you cannot taste, eh, my young friend? Eh? Eh?" He waggled his eyebrows in what Jezal felt was a most unsavoury fashion. "I
~ Joe Abercrombie
Two young people—one mad and one sexually insatiable—both naked—are roaming this house. At all costs we must prevent a collision.
~ Joe Orton
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
~ Amy Tan
I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.
~ Cassandra Clare
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
~ Ovid
Can't we talk about sex or murder?" asked Johnny.
~ E. Lockhart
And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river. And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.
~ E.M. Forster
Durham no podía esperar. La gente los rodeaba, pero con ojos que se habían vuelto intensamente azules murmuró: —Que te amo. Maurice se escandalizó, se horrorizó. Se estremeció hasta las raíces de su alma burguesa, y exclamó:"¡Oh, maldición!" Las palabras, los gestos, surgían de él antes de que pudiera evitarlo.
~ E.M. Forster
Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
~ Edith Hamilton
So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
~ Anonymous
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
~ Anonymous
And the swine… is unclean to you.Of their flesh shall ye not eat.
~ Anonymous
O Paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen,For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green!
~ Anonymous
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
~ Anonymous