Unfaithful Quotes

• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Originality, Translate, Translations

  Sobre el "Vathek"de William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 730

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• It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Funny, Faith, Sexy

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• We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Names, Generations

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.115, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hands, Dreamer, Ironic

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Writing, Double Standard

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• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Memories, Men

  Andre Maurois, S. C. Roberts (2014). “Aspects of Biography”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

  Robert Bly

  Infidelity

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• When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Hatred, Temptation

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Husband, Men, Poor

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Self Esteem, Sometimes, Wounds

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.93, Penguin

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• No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Faith, Infidelity

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Errors

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• I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.340

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• Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wife, Dating, Advice

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

  Dusty Springfield

  Affection, I Can

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• Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Our Love, Indifferent

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Stealing, Stealing Cars, Gods Will

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Destiny, Genius, Intellect

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1966). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.386, Courier Corporation

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• God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and laymen, wise and simple, healthy and sick, young and old just as the effusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the seasons are for all alike; 'for there is no respect of persons with God.'

  John Climacus

  Wise, Christian, Simple

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• America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

  Charlotte Bunch

  America, Promise

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• We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Excuse, Masters

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

  Carl Jung

  Good Marriage, License, Prerequisites

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• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

  Donald Cargill

  Stupid, Thinking, Champion

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• I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.

  Anna Ternheim

  Kind, Stuck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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