Kenneth Grahame Quotes

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy / That he thinks his booty is fly?

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Humanity would never tolerate it

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.