Best Adultery Thoughts
239 Adultery quotes by 198 unique authors
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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 time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is…
— Brigham Young
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The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
— Peter De Vries
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A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies…
— Rose Macaulay
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
— Jerry Falwell
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As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know…
— Larry Hagman
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That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see…
— Nicole Kidman
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Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the…
— Julian Lennon
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers.…
— A J Liebling
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
— Loretta Lynn
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
— H. L. Mencken
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But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and…
— Liam Neeson
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I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
— Emo Philips
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The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
— Joseph Prince
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact,…
— Allan Sherman
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I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of…
— Randall Terry
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Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
— John Updike
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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
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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
— Helen Fisher
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You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and…
— Azar Nafisi
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My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for…
— Simone Weil
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