Infidelity Quotes

• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

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• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Motivation, Integrity

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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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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• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.144, Penguin

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• I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

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• Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Likes, Would Be, Trouble

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• Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cheating, Hands, Cost

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• If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

  Ann Landers

  Wisdom, Cheating, Cheater

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• It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

  Cyril Connolly

  Age, Causes, Prime

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• There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

  Jerry Hall

  Loving Someone, Forgiving, Humiliating

  "Who said that ?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.

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• Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

  Junot Diaz

  Betrayal, Love Is, Historical

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• We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.

  Madame de La Fayette

  Forget, Pardon, Inconstancy

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  Wallace Stegner

  Loyalty, Lying, Hands

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• Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Fidelity, Signals, Given

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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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• Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

  Helen Rowland

  Nature, Memorable, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.30, Litres

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• The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

  August Strindberg

  Husband, Eye, Jealous

  August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

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• Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

  Joseph Hall

  Spiritual, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.154

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• There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honor, Inability, Smitten

  Thomas Carlyle (1884). “Miscellaneous essays”

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Faith, Respect

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

  Susan Forward

  Liars, Lying, Lovers

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• Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

  Rachel Hunter

  Hurt, Receiving, Ends

  "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

  Ada Leverson

  Morning, Night, Noon

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