Adultery Quotes

• You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sex, Committed, Courses

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• There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

  Aristotle

  Way, Right Time, Committing Adultery

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• The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

  C. S. Lewis

  Indulge In, Trying, Unions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

  Stefan Zweig

  Husband, Dark, Giving

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation

  Saladin

  War, Young Generation, Generations

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• I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

  John M. Gottman

  Together, Glue, Vases

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• When adultery walks in, everything worth having walks out.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Walks

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• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, Cheating, Husband And Wife

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• Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

  Sam Storms

  Rights, Stealing, Obvious

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• Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

  Leonard Michaels

  Sex, Mean, Romance

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• As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

  Georges Bizet

  Inspiring, Writing, Mean

  Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G., October 1866.

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• No adultery is bloodless.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Infidelity

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The City and the House: A Novel”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

  Paul Newman

  Home, Hamburgers, Fool

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• All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Murder, Killing, Intercourse

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.104, HarperCollins UK

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• Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, Lust

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• A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, People, Lust

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• Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Injustice, Segregation, Immorality

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

  Leonard Cohen

  Night, Two, Giving

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Evil

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• Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

  Voltaire

  Evil, Infidelity, Stealing

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Opportunity, Men

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• I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Mother, Song

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• Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Tears, Murder

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• There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

  Helen Fisher

  Culture, Devices, Philandering

  Helen Fisher (2016). “Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (Completely Revised and Updated with a New Introduction)”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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