Adultery Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Sexuality, Mass

  Journaux intimes (1887) 93

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• I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

  Bono

  Movie, Running, Children

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• The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  People, Mind, Loathe

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• Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Cheating, Mean, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Humility, Temptation

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.

  Ezequiel Martinez Estrada

  Book, Reading, Emotion

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• How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Party, Drunk, Lines

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• Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

  Nora Roberts

  Marriage, Fire, Land

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• Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Guy, Ends

  "Dan Savage Makes Stephen Colbert Break Character" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. July 13, 2011.

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• A woman who pretends to be a feminist shouldn't be taking money from countries where women are stoned, where women are killed for adultery, where women can't drive, Hillary Clinton's taken hundreds of millions of dollars from those countries.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Taken, Feminist

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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• The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Psychology, Moral

  Marriage and Morals ch. 16 (1929)

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• I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Thinking, Culture, Sympathetic

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When they tell people casual sex is wrong, they get the inevitable, "You got no right to tell me what I can or can't do. You don't get to define morality for me. It's none of your business what I do. Shut up." If they oppose sexual immorality in any form including adultery, they are maligned as sanctimonious Puritans who have not gotten with it in the twenty-first century. It's a long piece; it's well thought out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Long, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place.

  Rhett Akins

  Doors, Infidelity, Four

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• I was almost always true to you.

  Elvis Presley

  Infidelity

  Song: Almost Always True, Album: Blue Hawaii

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• I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

  Muddy Waters

  Baby, Husband, House

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• Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

  LL Cool J

  Smell, Infidelity, Made

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• They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.

  Hank Snow

  Cheating, Infidelity, Caves

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• This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?

  Randy Newman

  Thinking, Two, Giving

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• When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.

  Elvis Presley

  Names, Dancing, Infidelity

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• When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

  William Bell

  Two, Infidelity, Trying

  Song: Tryin' To Love Two

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