Adultery Quotes - Page 10

• Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to do everything in opposition to what Christ did and does.

  John of Kronstadt

  Men, Enemy, Devil

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• Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.

  John of Kronstadt

  Powerful, Mean, Pride

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• Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

  John of Kronstadt

  Taught Us, Devil, Way

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• The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

  John of Kronstadt

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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• Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears, fasting and the like. For God judges unrepentant fornicators and adulterers. He condemns them, dismisses them and consigns them to hell, unquenchable fire and other never-ending punishments, saying, 'Let the impure and accursed be taken away, lest they see and enjoy the glory of the Lord' (cf. Isa. 26:10 LXX).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Taken, Punishment

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

  Vera Pavlova

  Running, Home, Way

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• How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

  John Webster

  Husband, Spring, Law

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• Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

  William Congreve

  Roots, Should, Ifs

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

  David Allan Coe

  Infidelity, Praying, Cheat

  Song: Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat, 1995

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• Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

  Garth Brooks

  Men, Infidelity, Papa

  Song: Papa Loved Mama, 1991

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• She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

  Bryan Adams

  Infidelity, Found, Dies

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• The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liars, Lying, Fall

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• Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

  Toby Keith

  Infidelity, Towns, Rodeo

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• You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

  Dolly Parton

  Infidelity, Mouths, Bass

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• One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Maids, Bears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Instinct, Reservations

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.

  William Styron

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, Forever, Tears

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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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• There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Hands, Atheism, Together

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• Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

  Edith Pearlman

  Drinking, Book, Reading

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• [In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.

  Nora Waln

  Mother, Children, Men

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• If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Men, Scary

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• Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency." In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

  Anatole Broyard

  Country, Travel, Men

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