Adultery Quotes
239 quotes by 208 authors
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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…
— Saint Augustine
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery.…
— Bono
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
— Edmund Burke
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
— Samuel Butler
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
— Jimmy Carter
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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
— Nora Roberts
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other end of that same guy?
— Dan Savage
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
— John Updike
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The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the DEATH PENALTY. ADULTERY…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the…
— St. Jerome
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being…
— Hippolytus of Rome
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An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in…
— Ibn Majah
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If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel,"…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good…
— Aristotle
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect…
— Joseph Haydn
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Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.
— Brendon Small
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