Adultery Quote by Rose Macaulay

Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

— Leonard Michaels

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

— Voltaire

In its most technical sense, committing adultery refers to sexual intercourse between a man and woman when one or both of them is married.

— John MacArthur

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

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

Adultery is the injury of nature.

— Plato

Adultery is extravagance.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

— H. L. Mencken

Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like…

— Alexander Theroux

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…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

— Marcel Proust

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

— Molly Haskell