Infidelity Quotes - Page 2

• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Marriage, Democracy

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

  Lyle Lovett

  Lying, Loving You, Doe

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• A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

  William Wycherley

  Country, Night, House

  'The Country Wife' (1672-3) act 1, sc. 1

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• I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

  Michael Zaslow

  Cheating, Hurt, Home

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• Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Born, Made

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• No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Faith, Mistress

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Weed, Giving, Return

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• No adultery is bloodless.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Adultery

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The City and the House: A Novel”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Modesty, Term

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• Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Husband, Married

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.272

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• When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Welcome, Fidelity

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• Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

  William McFee

  Rushing, Wife, Males

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• I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

  Jean Paul

  Fog, Air, Pumps

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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Opportunity, Men

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• Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

  William Blake

  Cheating, Mischief

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.15, Routledge

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• Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

  Anais Nin

  Friendship, Keys, Wife

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• There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Men, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 348), 1895.

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• Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

  Clayton Christensen

  Lying, Cost, Dishonesty

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

  Cyril Connolly

  Cheating, Revenge, Women

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• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  Dan Savage

  Expectations, Important, Should

  "Dan Savage Makes Nonmonogamy Sound So Darn Sensible" by Rachael Larimore, www.slate.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

  Leonard Cohen

  Night, Two, Giving

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  Maimonides

  Fake People, Confused, Fall

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.290, Moses Maimonides

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• The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teacher, Atheist, Children

  John Thomas Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Tennessee. County Court (Rhea Co.) (1971). “The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys”, Da Capo Pr

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• I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

  Eva Longoria

  Thinking, Hollywood, Schedules

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• Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Wife, Four

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