Adultery Quotes - Page 5

• When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.

  John M. Gottman

  Couple, Long, Dying

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• If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with

  Billy Preston

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

  John Updike

  Firsts, Breathe

  Couples ch. 5 (1968)

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• Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

  Neil Young

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Writing, Rooms

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• Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

  Bette Midler

  Smell, Infidelity, Pace

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• Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Amusement, Crime

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• The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

  Joseph Haydn

  Drinking, Wine, Relatives And Friends

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• Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

  Neil Diamond

  Infidelity, Found, Loving Him

  Song: Solitary Man, 1966

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• In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Divorce, Law

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• In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

  Aristotle

  Time, Facts, Action

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1107a.15,

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• The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.

  Steve Kluger

  Mountain, News, Moses

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• A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

  Randy Travis

  Infidelity, Taverns, Reason

  Song: Reasons I Cheat By Randy Travis

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• There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Infidelity, Bars

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• I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert

  Diana Dors

  Believe, Differences, Guy

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

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• Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Law, Bears

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• Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

  Keith Sweat

  Heart, Infidelity, Heart Attack

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• Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Time, Retirement, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127

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• Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

  Elif Batuman

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "The Rumpus Interview With Elif Batuman". Interview with Sean Carman, therumpus.net. April 25, 2012.

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• Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Apostasy

  Francis August Schaeffer (1971). “The church before the watching world: a practical ecclesiology”, IVP Books

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• Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

  Moliere

  Honor, Jupiter, Dishonor

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• One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Humor, Feet

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• Adultery is extravagance.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Infidelity, Extravagance

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

  Nancy Astor

  Beer, Glasses, Alcohol

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