Adultery Quotes - Page 6

• Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Grief, Commitment, Gay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

  Zoë Heller

  Committed, Institute, Ifs

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• Splendid couple - slept with both of them.

  Maurice Bowra

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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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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• They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

  Al Sharpton

  Gay, Constitution, Sin

  "Sharpton Pledges Fight Against Homophobia Among Blacks" by Jamal Watson, New York Sun, August 3, 2005.

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• It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Drinking, Fall, People

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• To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Ideas, Evil

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• The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.

  Aristides of Athens

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare.

  David Plotz

  Law, Abortion, Use

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

  Moliere

  Philosophical, Matter, Way

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• If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

  Elvis Presley

  Sleep, Names, Infidelity

  Song: If You Talk In Your Sleep

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• I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Home, Infidelity, Tonight

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• I'm just the average guy, I fooled around a little on the side.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Average, Guy, Infidelity

  Song: The Other Woman, Album: The Other Woman

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• Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

  Brendon Small

  Marriage, Two, Break

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• There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die. He looks at his hand and says, "How could this die?" That's the joke. I've always thought, and this is nothing new, that we don't really believe we die. I think you're going to die, because I know that's what happens but I can't imagine I'm going to die.

  Lore Segal

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sacrifice, Self, Abuse

  "Ficciones". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1944.

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• You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

  Phil Collins

  Lying, Infidelity, Wipe

  Song: In The Air Tonight, Album: Face Value

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• You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Infidelity, Ought

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• Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

  Xenophanes

  Men, Deception, Done

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• A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Faithful, Concerned, Faithless

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lying, Joy, Selfishness

  "The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.

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• I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

  Thornton Wilder

  Ephemeral, Dentist, Not Interested

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Mar.

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• Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

  Ben Macintyre

  War, Party, Deception

  Ben Macintyre (2010). “Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II”, p.239, A&C Black

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• L'adulte'  re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse  e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

  Marcel Proust

  New Life, Breathe, Has Beens

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• Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Ignorance, Keys, Soul

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