Adultery Quotes - Page 9

• I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Years, Wife

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• This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Prayer, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.924, Manonmani Publishers

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• [In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.

  Nora Waln

  Mother, Children, Men

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• [about Planned Parenthood] It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism - everything that the Bible condemns.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Teaching, Kids

  "The 700 Club". TV Series, www.imdb.com. April 9, 1991.

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• The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't masturbate without lust.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Heart, Lust, Stupid Conservative

  "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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• If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be, I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I do not think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian.

  Chris Broussard

  Christian, Jesus, Sex

  "Chris Broussard, ESPN Reporter, Calls Being Gay An ‘Open Rebellion To God’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Men, Scary

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• Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Wife, Religion

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Son, Two

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355

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• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  Larry Hagman

  Cancer, Receiving, Dallas

  "Larry Hagman Returns to His Old 'Dallas' Stomping Grounds" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

  Toby Keith

  Infidelity, Towns, Rodeo

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• These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

  Mark Twain

  People, Break, Statues

  Mark Twain (1995). “Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic”

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• The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liars, Lying, Fall

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• Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Punishment, Desire, Fierce

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Maids, Bears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

  H. L. Mencken

  Simple, Fields, Admire

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• Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

  Deb Caletti

  Soccer, Father, Lightning

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• Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

  Joe Haldeman

  Book, Writing, Reason

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• People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!

  Richard Dreyfuss

  People, Commit, Knows

  Twitter post from Feb 5, 2013

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• Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

  William Congreve

  Roots, Should, Ifs

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

  John Webster

  Husband, Spring, Law

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• She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Tired, Emma, Banality

  gustave flaubert (1950). “madame bovary”

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• Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Way, Rise Above, Conventional

  Lectures on Literature "Madame Bovary" (1980)

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• Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

  Edith Pearlman

  Drinking, Book, Reading

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• Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust.  We don’t lust after very many things in life.  We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel?  The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country.  To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Passion, Animal

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