Thomas Otway Quotes

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

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.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden.

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University