Affair Quotes

• All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Wish

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• I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Fiction, Stories

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• The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Truth Is, Love Affair

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• I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Men, Married, Knows

  "1999: ABC's Walters Pressed Lewinsky on Affairs with Married Men". www.newsbusters.org. May 9, 2008.

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• When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

  Rose Tremain

  Pieces, Kind, Finished

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• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  Pam Gems

  Drama, Heart, Said

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• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Rights, Ideas, Humanitarian

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

  Jan Morris

  Students, Impossible, Beirut

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

  William H. Macy

  Men, People, Common

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. Novemer 21, 2003.

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• I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

  Madeleine Albright

  Europe, Uniforms, Stage

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• I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tired, Literature, Paper

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

  Kim Cattrall

  Life Is Hard, Sensual, Enough

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• Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

  John Cusack

  People, Actors, Chemistry

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• An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

  Bette Davis

  Funny Marriage, Add, Spices

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

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• Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

  Freddy Fender

  Night, Love Affair, Efforts Wasted

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• Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Birthday, Children, Party

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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• A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Poet, Notes

  BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis, September 13, 1957.

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  Walter Gropius

  Guiding Principles, Design, Intellectual

  "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

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• There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Divorce, Cynical

  News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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• A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Death, Men

  "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann, transl. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Ch. 6, 1955.

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

  James McGreevey

  Office, November

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• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cities, Firsts, Literature

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.27, BookBaby

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