Forbidden Quotes

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

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

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

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

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.

Break open the forbidden happiness.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

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

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

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.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

That which is not forbidden,
is not on that account permitted.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole thing is artificial. But it should be used, I mean, it's not forbidden. But you don't have to stress it.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.