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Quotes About Forbidden

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
~ Lady Gregory
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
~ Lars von Trier
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
~ Horace
A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked."-pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire Kerrelyn Sparks
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Dear God, that man has a magnificent body.' ............. 'It's like having a cupcake thrust in front of your face and not being allowed to have a lick of the icing.
~ J.L. McCoy
Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.
~ Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club.
~ Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.
~ Melissa Etheridge
For something to be forbidden, Leila, someone must make it forbidden. Ask why. Always ask yourself why.
~ Alex Stargazer, The Sandman
I fear I am forbidden fruit," he sighed into her hair. Her hands grasped him in answer. "I would know such fruit. For always." "Oh, sweetness, you know not what you are saying. It can be so dark here, with me." "I'm not afraid." Even as he gave up and kissed her, he murmured a warning. "You should be. You should be.
~ Jamie Carie
But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.
~ Jason Fagone
In the bodily garden the apple lurks.
~ Edna O'Brien
Is that Rococo, Pascal?" Chrissie said as she stood by the missus's desk, peering into the nests of pigeonholes and cubbies. "Oh, don't touch there or you'll be shot," Pascal said, because it was where the missus kept her souvenirs, love letters from men before him, locks of hair, dried shamrock, and the words of songs that she rehearsed for her parties. Her family was musical
~ Edna O'Brien
He was sternly forbid to pitch his tents in a pleasant valley, lest he should infringe the distant awe that was due to the royal mansion.
~ Edward Gibbon
Hay algo de prohibido en el hastío, algo que hace avergonzarse de hastiarse. Como si no bastara con el sufrimiento está también la vergüenza.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
La noche, de nuevo la noche, la magistral sapiencia de lo oscuro, el cálido roce de la muerte, un instante de éxtasis para mí, heredera de todo jardín prohibido.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Tal vez si prohibieran la literatura como la cocaína, la gente por puro morbo, buscaría meterse un par de líneas.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
~ Alexander Hamilton
dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
~ Alexander Pope
People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
~ Alexander Pushkin
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
~ Alexander Woollcott
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
~ Alexis Carrel
'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
~ Aaron Taylor-Johnson