Adultery Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston Download Open image “Adultery is extravagance.” — Maxine Hong Kingston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adultery Extravagance Infidelity
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do for a living? Yea, you're going to have to work because you can't be a housewife. Somebody has… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed the village,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through.” — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Reality has a way of bursting the bubble of illusion, and an affair is one of the biggest illusions that anyone can experience in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once a cheater always remain's a cheater, if you love your partner, why cheat? That dosent makes any sense, that can tell that you… — Brittannia Calder Copy Share Image
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root? — William Congreve Copy Share Image
L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was thinking of murder, mutilation and dessert like Ignacia Sandoval’s instructions for delectable empanadas made of minced mother-in-law’s tongue (said to induce peace… — Sandra Ramos O'Briant Copy Share Image
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go… — John Owen Copy Share Image
