Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Bill Bryson

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Alexander Skarsgard

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Milton Friedman

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Eva Gabrielsson

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Izabella Scorupco

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Karl Kraus

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

Latin Proverb

When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden

Michel Faber

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

David Mamet

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

Sharon Olds

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Murray Gell-Mann

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Standing Bear

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground.