Adultery Quotes - Page 3

• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Hype, Infidelity

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1024, Wordsworth Editions

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• I've committed adultery in my heart.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, Presidential, Committed

  Interview, Playboy, Nov. 1976

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• Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gun, Games, Principles

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• I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sex, Writing, Kids

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• I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Character, Dishonesty

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• Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

  Joyce Cary

  Marriage, Sin, Ends

  The Horse's Mouth ch. 8 (1944)

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• Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

  Marquis de Sade

  Heart, Unique, Smoking

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• I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

  Andre Balazs

  Thinking, Goes On, World

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• I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

  Randall Terry

  Running, Made, Committed

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• Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

  Murray Banks

  Sex, Adults, Infancy

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• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  A. J. Liebling

  Later In Life, Opposites, World

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.9, Macmillan

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• I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

  Oscar Levant

  Mistress, Stories, Bears

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• Married, but not to each other.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Infidelity, Married

  Song: Married But Not to Each Other

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• Take adultery or theft.
  Merely sins.
  It is evil who dines on the soul,
  stretching out its long bone tongue.
  It is evil who tweezers my heart,
  picking out its atomic worms.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Long, Evil

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

  Michael Caine

  Married, Respecting Others, Property

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

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

  Tom T. Hall

  Heart, Infidelity, World

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• I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

  Steve Garvey

  Commit, Another Woman, Ifs

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• The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

  John Cheever

  Rain, Taken, Writing

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1963.

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• The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

  John Updike

  Firsts, Constraints, Breaths

  Couples ch. 5 (1968)

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• The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

  Joseph Prince

  Wife, Want, Reason

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• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Thinking, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

  Azar Nafisi

  Self, Issues, Evil

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.133, Random House

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• In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Betrayal, Heart, Infidelity

  Song: Cautious Man, Album: Tunnel Of Love, 1987

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• The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Fear, Hypocrite

  Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1

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