Committing Adultery Quotes

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Crazy, Heart, Patriotic

  "Style Invitational Week 1055: A K-contest to honor the K of 1K blots of ink; plus anagrams". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't masturbate without lust.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Heart, Lust, Adultery

  "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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• The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

  Joseph Prince

  Wife, Want, Adultery

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• The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

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• It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

  Howard Stern

  Men, Wife, Ugly

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• God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

  Saint Augustine

  Sex, Wife, Return

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• Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Husband, Home, Divorce

  "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.

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• You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sex, Adultery, Committed

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• Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gun, Games, Principles

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• There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

  Aristotle

  Way, Adultery, Right Time

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• It is not enough to be abstinent with other people. You also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't - a word that rhymes with congratulate - without lust.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Heart, People, Lust

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Years, Wife

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• Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

  St. Jerome

  Children, Abortion, Poison

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• I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?" It was hard not to smile at that. "An excellent point." "I think so.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Brother, Moving, Grandmother

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  William Nicholson

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  William Nicholson (2014). “Motherland: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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