Forbidden Quotes

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

When I was fighting, there was no boxing in Saudi Arabia because it was forbidden.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.

I'm just warning you here: Don't anybody ask about the president's religion! Don't even get close to going there. Don't do it. That is a forbidden area. You cannot even ask about it.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

Whenever a man is alone with a woman the devil makes a third

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Very few things are off-limits for me.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden