Best 19 quotes in «forbidden fruit quotes» category

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

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

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

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

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed. A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are....

An inappropriate attraction to your friend’s fiancé was grounds for disbarment from the Woman Club. Neither did it make a lick of sense. He was uncouth, uneducated, uncivilized. All of their conversations back then had been unholy bicker fests where they charged from the opposite ends of the spectrum, determined not to meet in the middle but to rip pieces out of each other on the drive by.

Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing...though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.

Having something forbidden is exciting, don't you agree?

Ich weiß nicht, woher ich die Courage nahm, zu Frau Schmitz zu gehen. Kehrte sich die moralische Erziehung gewissermaßen gegen sich selbst? Wenn der begehrliche Blick so schlimm war wie die Befriedigung der Begierde, das aktive Phantasieren so schlimm wie der phantasierte Akt – warum dann nicht die Befriedigung und den Akt?

I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped up and roared through my belly. My fingers yanked him close, digging into his back, and his arms crushed me to him as if wanting to meld us together. I knotted my fingers in his hair and bit down on his bottom lip, making him groan. His lips parted, and my tongue swept in to dance with his. There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be.

I want to take you under the moonlight.

It’s hard to imagine what changed after that first bite of forbidden fruit, but it must have been a little like the power going out in the dead of winter. The warm light of God’s perfect presence vanished and chill dread must have swollen inside them.

You do bad things to me, Carrie,” he grinned, “Very bad things.

What is the connection between you and our handsome host? Aunt B asked. Blackberries taste much worse when they try to come back up your throat. "Uhhh..." "Uhhh is not an answer," Keira informed me. Andre must not have told her about Hugh, and I had no desire to explain who my dad was. "We never met but we were trained by the same person. Now he works for a very powerful man who will kill me if he finds me." "Why?" Keira asked. "It's a family thing." "That explains the attraction," Aunt B said. "Attraction?" "You're that thing he can't have. It's called forbidden fruit." "I'm not his fruit!" "He thinks you are. The word you're looking for is "smitten," my dear." Aunt B smiled. "I'm sure the way Megobari looked at you made Curran positively giddy.

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

The perfect boyfriend. Evolutionary psychologists often opine that bad boys are the ultimate alpha males—powerful, potent, lethal. These predators represent the forbidden fruit! Ergo that makes them the ultimate taboo, which makes them the ultimate aphrodisiac.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.