Infidelity Quotes - Page 9

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

  Garth Brooks

  Men, Papa, Mama

  Song: Papa Loved Mama, 1991

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• She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

  Tom T. Hall

  Heart, World, Body

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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

  Adultery, Found, Dies

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• So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

  Bobby Vee

  Lying, Eye, Night

  Song: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

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• Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

  Elvis Presley

  Girl, Falling In Love, Two

  Song: Double Trouble

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

  William Bell

  Two, Trying, Adultery

  Song: Tryin' To Love Two

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• There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

  George Eliot

  Deception, Deceit, Killing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1538, Delphi Classics

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• ...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.

  Michael Shermer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Focus

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• In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

  Miroslav Volf

  People, Different, Way

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• Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Song, Tunes

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

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• In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

  David Sedaris

  Book, People, Looks

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forgiving

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• If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man

  Rod Stryker

  Giving Up, Lying, Men

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• It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Father, Book, Sacrifice

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.

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• The wages of sin is alimony.

  Carolyn Wells

  Wages, Sin, Alimony

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• Despair is infidelity and death.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Despair

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.19

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• Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Doors, Faults

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Dolley”, p.49, Bantam

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• Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Pain, Betrayal, Dark

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.161, Grove Press

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• No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death.... I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it as it were - and never opened it to my knowledge.

  William Herndon

  Book, Cities, Atheism

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• Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hypocrisy, Religion, Church

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.97, Penguin

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• Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
  it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
  as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Believe, Names

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

  Ben Hecht

  Bible, Book, League

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

  Anna Quindlen

  Taken, Men, Law

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• I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

  Jean Racine

  Done, Unfaithful, I Loved You

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• I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Wife, Honor, Phrases

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