Adultery Quotes

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sex, Committed, Courses

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• The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

  C. S. Lewis

  Indulge In, Trying, Unions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, Cheating, Husband And Wife

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• As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

  Georges Bizet

  Inspiring, Writing, Mean

  Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G., October 1866.

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• No adultery is bloodless.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Infidelity

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The City and the House: A Novel”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, Lust

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• When adultery walks in, everything worth having walks out.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Walks

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• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Evil

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• Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

  Sam Storms

  Rights, Stealing, Obvious

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• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Marriage, Infidelity

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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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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• The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

  John Cheever

  Rain, Taken, Writing

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1963.

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• Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Tears, Murder

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Fear, Hypocrite

  Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1

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• The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

  John Updike

  Firsts, Constraints, Breaths

  Couples ch. 5 (1968)

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• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Hype, Infidelity

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1024, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

  John Updike

  Lying, Deceit, Lateness

  "Couples". Book by John Updike, 1968.

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• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Thinking, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

  Loretta Lynn

  Attitude, Simple, Men

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• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

  Samuel Butler

  Divorce, Religion, Church

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sorrow, Mazes, Sin

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• All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Murder, Killing, Intercourse

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.104, HarperCollins UK

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• French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Sex, World, Lovers

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.27, tredition

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• Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, New York, Divorce

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• We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

  Cleo Moore

  Wife, Acting, Film

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