Mark Twain Quotes

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.