Affair Quotes

• All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Wish

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• The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Truth Is, Love Affair

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• I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Fiction, Stories

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• I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Men, Married, Knows

  "1999: ABC's Walters Pressed Lewinsky on Affairs with Married Men". www.newsbusters.org. May 9, 2008.

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• When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

  Rose Tremain

  Pieces, Kind, Finished

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• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  Pam Gems

  Drama, Heart, Said

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• We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

  William H. Macy

  Men, People, Common

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. Novemer 21, 2003.

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• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Rights, Ideas, Humanitarian

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

  Jan Morris

  Students, Impossible, Beirut

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

  Plautus

  Courage, Evil, Overcoming

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• One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Relationship, One Love

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• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

  John Updike

  Love, Doe, World

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 08, 2015

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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Strange, Certain

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

  James McGreevey

  Office, November

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• I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

  Madeleine Albright

  Europe, Uniforms, Stage

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• A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Poet, Notes

  BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis, September 13, 1957.

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• The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

  Maurice Ravel

  Love, Inspiring, Classical Music

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• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cities, Firsts, Literature

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.27, BookBaby

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• Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Birthday, Children, Party

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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• Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

  John Cusack

  People, Actors, Chemistry

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• An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

  Bette Davis

  Funny Marriage, Add, Spices

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

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• The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

  Freddy Fender

  Night, Love Affair, Efforts Wasted

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