William Hazlitt Quotes

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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

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.

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

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

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

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

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.