Forbid Quotes

212 Forbid quotes by 172 unique authors

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. — Francis Bacon
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. — Michel de Montaigne
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch… — George Bernard Shaw
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke. — Kurt Vonnegut
I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery. — Leonard Cohen
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we… — Saint Augustine
That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone… — Nicholas Sparks
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon
I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a… — Wendy Mass
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .… — Thomas Jefferson
If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile… — Cassandra Clare
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen
God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic:… — John Green
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it… — William Shakespeare
Can you stand? (Aimee) I’m not helpless. (Fang) Oh, look! Mr. Macho is back in all his glory. Hello, Mr. Macho, it’s so not good… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a… — Rick Bass
I don’t know who has it, but apparently other people have been playing it which is why we have zombies cropping up all over the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!… — Patrick Henry

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