Quotes on Forbidden Fruit

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,_x000D_ but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.