"The more things are forbidden, the more popular…" — Mark Twain

More Forbidden Quotes

This quote is filed under Forbidden Quotes, one of 367 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself… — Johann Arndt
• I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're… — David Bowie
• I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every… — Karel Capek
• Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. — Alexis Carrel
• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on… — Frank Zappa
• After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. — Diane Ackerman
• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. — Ovid
• There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer… — Angela Carter
• In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away… — Saint Augustine
• To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of… — Robert Louis Stevenson

See all 367 Forbidden Quotes »