Affair Quotes

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.

— Little Walter

Salvation is a family affair.

— Bruce R. McConkie

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

— Alan Cohen

A man was having an affair

— Gyanendra

I see music as a lifetime affair.

— Rory Gallagher

You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

— Jim Butcher

Art without life is a poor affair.

— Henry James

“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

— Gavin Extence

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

— Frederick Seitz

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

— Jude Deveraux

Lyrically,the reason why people double date is because it has two D's. LOL Quotemewrong.

— Shappy Song

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

— Rosalind Russel

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I…

— James K. Polk

“You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then…

— Ariel Levy

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

— Alexander Hamilton

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

— Helen McCloy

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

— Allan Massie

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

— Margaret MacMillan

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough…

— E. W. Howe

But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic…

— Robert Gilpin

If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men…

— Steven Weinberg

Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India…

— Kabir Bedi

Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were…

— Lewis B. Smedes

Anne Marie Smith flew to Washington to tell prosecutors about Gary Condit's attempt to get her to deny their affair. It looks…

— Argus Hamilton

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good……

— Woodrow Wilson

Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and…

— Marcus Berkmann

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can…

— Ed Crane

I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every…

— Max Stirner

As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“End the affair briskly, and without allowing the slightest room for doubt,' Griselda continued. 'Tell the gentleman that while you are grateful…

— Eloisa James

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must…

— Henry David Thoreau

... I pray... that you may discern your affairs in a manner pleasing to God and may so act and endeavor that…

— Symeon the New Theologian

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange…

— Calvin Coolidge