Forbidden Quotes
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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.
The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.
The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.
At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.
I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late.
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.
We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.