"Tabu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... outline with little difficulty, but in trivial matters of social behavior and human relations he's frequently uncertain, as likely as not to pull a howling bloomer. Seems unusually baffled and exasperated by some of the social mores he runs into, such as the many tabu subjects for conversation, or taking your clothes off whenever or wherever you feel inclined to. Poor Helen. She tries to explain and he keeps doggedly after her with ruthless logic, obviously trying hard to understand, ...
— The Short Life • Francis Donovan
... slender figures. The universal dress is a long cloth twisted round the waist, the fringed ends of which hang below the knee. The people are said to be great thieves, and the tribes are always at war with each other, but they are not very courageous or bloodthirsty. The custom of "tabu," called here "pomali," is very general, fruit trees, houses, crop, and property of all kinds being protected from depredation by this ceremony, the reverence for which is very great. A palm branch stuck across an open ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... Tabu. Tarde. Taylor, Henry Osborn. Teleology in morals. Tender emotion. Tennyson. Theology. Theory, inadequacy of in morals. Thilly. Thinking, common sense vs. scientific; influence of habit on; analyzes experience; begins with a problem. See also Reflection, and Scientific method. Thompson, ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman
... the beginning about Phoebe possibly being like the Olympus Station. I've often wondered why that particular location has been so difficult to operate. Sure, I know the accepted explanation, but I think we should learn why it works and how to break a tabu. If we don't, we might be in ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone
... us," Drake burst out hastily. "We're Norhala's little playthings. We're tabu. Take it from me, Ruth, I'd bet my head there isn't one of these Things, great or small, and no matter how many, that doesn't by this time know all ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt
... are seen at Tuskegee. All is affirmative, yet it is understood that some things are tabu—tobacco, for instance, and ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard
... convent she had left and about whether her frock for a party when they got home should be white or blue. It hadn't come into his head that they would talk about a single thing that they hadn't always talked about; it had not even come into his head that the tabu which extended around her was not inviolable. And then, suddenly, that—He was very careful to assure me that at that time there was no physical motive about his declaration. It did not appear to him to be ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford
... and its acquired meaning "cowry". This fact seems to have played some part in fixing upon the pig the notoriety of being "an unclean animal".[425] But it was mainly for other reasons of a very different kind that the eating of swine-flesh was forbidden. The tabu seems to have arisen originally because the pig was a sacred animal identified with the Great Mother and the Water God, and especially associated with both these ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... money because it was producing goods the world wanted. But its workers were tabu in respectable society, and priestly hands were held aloft in pretended horror whenever the name of Robert Owen, or the word "Socialism," ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard |
