A Quote by Tacitus

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Tacitus

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

Lady Gaga

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Mark Twain

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Jerome Robbins

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

John Ruskin

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

Mason Cooley

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

The secret of charm is bullshit.

Tyrone Power

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Anita Loos

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Havelock Ellis

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Havelock Ellis

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Chris Gardner

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

David Mamet

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

James M. Barrie

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