Best 214 quotes in «adultery quotes» category

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

No adultery is bloodless.

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

When adultery walks in, everything worth having walks out.

Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?

You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

Adultery often happens, I am sure, because you are on a sinking ship, and you need to leap but can't leap. You are too spineless, maybe, to leap.The water is too dark and choppy and the sea is too large. Saving your own life, even, isn't enough reason to jump- no, you need the hands at your back, pushing, the hands of something as unavoidable and inevitable and imperative as love.It's got to be something that big, you know, to get you to jump.

Adultery doesn't come until the seventh commandment, and you won't even get to the seventh commandment if you don't violate the first two commandments. Sex is god, and I worship by having sexual sin.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.