Adultery Quotes
239 Adultery quotes by 198 unique authors
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It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart…
— Christine O'Donnell
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me…
— Ben Jonson
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
— Murray Banks
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While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith…
— Peter Tatchell
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The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European…
— Anthony Burgess
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and…
— Gautama Buddha
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I've committed adultery in my heart.
— Jimmy Carter
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No adultery is bloodless.
— Natalia Ginzburg
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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
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
— Martin Luther
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If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be, I…
— Unknown Author
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window…
— John Cheever
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Planned Parenthood is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism - everything that the Bible condemns.
— Pat Robertson
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I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out…
— John Owen
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God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what…
— Jim Bakker
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Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.
— Elin Hilderbrand
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Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts,…
— Alexander Trocchi
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When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?
— Deion Sanders
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that…
— Jared Diamond
Who Wrote These Adultery Quotes
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