Quotes about Taboo
So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.
— Haggai 2:13
But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.
— Virginia Woolf
But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.
— Virginia Woolf
Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.
— Virginia Woolf
Man who fart in church, sit in pew.
— Confucius
There is no pornography without a secrecy.
— DH Lawrence
Then there's the sort that puts you out before you really "come," and go on writhing their loins till they bring themselves off against your thighs. But they're mostly the Lesbian sort. It's astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously. Seems to me they're nearly all Lesbian.
— DH Lawrence
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
— Walt Whitman
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
— Mark Twain
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?
— Rick Warren
What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
— Herman Melville