Top 59 Quotes About Forbidden Fruit
#1. But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
Justina Chen
#2. My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.
Kathryn Prescott
#3. I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#4. While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Abigail Van Buren
#5. He is entering through the darkest passage of my heart, without even knocking at the door. A tree of forbidden fruit, walking down close to tempt me.
Samreen Ahsan
#6. Reality was that no matter how well he filled out those creased jeans, he truly was forbidden fruit.
Carolyn Brown
#7. We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#8. Andi was forbidden fruit, and even if she wasn't, there was no way a pure country bumpkin like her could handle a self-confessed pussy pounding warrior like me.
Kirsty Dallas
#9. The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your hunger and feed yourself.
Terry Tempest Williams
#10. People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
Alexander Pushkin
#11. Then he strode across the room and kissed her.
It was a crazy, impulsive act, but the minute his lips touched hers he knew it was the right thing to do.
She tasted like sex and sin and forbidden fruit, and he couldn't get enough.
Kate Davies
#12. When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
George Washington
#13. He walked to Brooks's, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But
even at his club, surrounded by all the trappings of the honorable British gentleman, he still longed for the
forbidden fruit; he still hungered for the hot, sweet kisses of an Italian girl.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#14. It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees.
Barbara Kingsolver
#15. He's forbidden fruit, and I'm Eve standing in front of the apple
Jessica Clare
#16. Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.
John F. Kennedy
#17. 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.
Victor Hugo
#19. Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing ... though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.
Claudy Conn
#20. Not since the serpent
approached Eve in the Garden had a woman been so tempted by forbidden fruit.
Teresa Medeiros
#21. Forbidden fruit makes a wonderful wine." Vazco gave him a leading look. "But leaves a hell of a headache.
Susan Scott
#22. I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit,
John Key
#23. This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse.
Constance O'Banyon
#24. Keep looking at me like that, and I'll change my mind. Forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. - Alysandir Mackinnon
Elaine Coffman
#25. There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted by the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, I succumb. Good as they are, how could my parents have bred a daughter like me?
Miriam Brenaman
#26. He is like a forbidden fruit, attracting everyone around him into the paradise of pleasure. I know the consequences of trying this fruit, but still, I am tempted to take the risk.
Samreen Ahsan
#27. Is there an aphrodisiac more powerful than forbidden fruit hanging just out of reach?
Lynn Cullen
#28. She was pretty all right, but he'd had prettier. She was proud and brave,too, but she was also outrageous and outspoken. And, yes, she had the body of a goddess, but she dressed it like a man. She entranced him, she irritated the hell out of him. She was forbidden fruit!
Charlotte McPherren
#29. There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace it by others - this bears witness that one is about to be found unworthy, that one has already doubtless proved unworthy of innocence ...
Andre Breton
#30. For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
Mark Twain
#31. In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
She knew that there was something better than paradise
Cesare Borgia
#32. For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.
Yukio Mishima
#33. I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.
Patrick Lussier
#34. I used to be into 'forbidden fruit', but I've moved on to'verboten vegetables
Josh Stern
#35. There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.
Rae Foley
#37. Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.
Michelle Marcos
#38. He was my very own forbidden fruit, one of which I had to keep far far away.
Tillie Cole
#39. I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other.
Beth Gutcheon
#40. Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit."
"Well, you are pretty fruity.
Darynda Jones
#41. I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
Gene Simmons
#42. You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.
Ray Charles
#43. We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.
Alexander Pushkin
#44. They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back.
Kevin DeYoung
#45. We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.
Ralph Cudworth
#46. From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
Yehuda Levi
#47. Fleeting joy and fading ecstasy, here it goes again, oh,
Sneaking fruit from the forbidden tree, sweet taste of sin
John Legend
#48. He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Terry Pratchett
#49. Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?
Claire Messud
#50. It is as forbidden as is the illicit fruit of Hades, and yet, even he has eaten from it.
Nely Cab
#51. Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Benjamin Franklin
#52. Oh but you wouldn't believe,
This book is the fruit of knowledge from Eden;
It was written once by Adam and Eve,
After it was forbidden
Stephan Attia
#53. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse
John Milton
#54. Tasting what could have been - what should have been - didn't make it easier.
Kele Moon
#55. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
C.S. Lewis
#56. We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
Nenia Campbell
#57. When your eyes meet my solitude
Silence ripens, a fruit,
And sleep turns into storm.
Forbidden doors fling open
And water learns to suffer.
Joumana Haddad
#58. It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.
C.J. Roberts
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