Jock Sturges Quotes

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

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

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.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.

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

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.