Quotes on Forbidden

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Author: Karel Capek

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Author: John Chrysostom

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Author: Harvey Cox

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.

Author: Jean Genet

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

Author: Kerry King

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.

Author: H. Mencken

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Author: Ovid

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Author: Boris Pasternak

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Author: Alain Robert

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

Author: Mark Twain

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Author: Voltaire

Illicit love is the sweetest temptation, tasting both bitter and divine.

Author: Oscar Wilde