Best 214 quotes in «adultery quotes» category

When Ginny realized I wouldn’t ask Max for a divorce, her request became an ultimatum. One day she screamed, “Make up your mind, Simon. It’s either me or your wife, you can’t have it both ways.” She didn’t sound vulnerable like a rejected woman, she sounded shrill and demanding with a threatening tone. (terrific line) This had to end, and soon.

When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably determined to divorce her husband.

When she realizes that Nigel is having an affair, her first sentiment is satisfaction that she figured it out. Her second is that, despite all the palaver about betrayal, it doesn't feel so terrible.This is pleasing--it demonstrates a certain sophistication. She wonders if his fling might even serve her. In principle, she could leave him without compunction now, though she doesn't wish to. It also frees her from guilt about any infidelities she might wish to engage in. All in all, his affair might prove useful.

When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.

Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly.

You are sauntering along the back streets of Avallon; you step into a tavern for a cup of wine. A great lummox claims that you have molested his wife; he takes up his cutlass and comes at you. So now! With your knife! Draw and throw! All in a single movement! You advance, pull your knife from the villain's neck, wipe it on his sleeve. If in fact you have molested the dead churl's wife, bid her begone! The episode has quite dampened your spirit. But you are attacked from another side by another husband. Quick!

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Wronged wives were a law unto themselves.

You may wear her in title yours: but, you know, strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.

Your greatest regrets in life will not come from your past failures; they would come from remembering the amount of time you spent in pursuing vain things.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

You once told me, when you visited my house, how Anne conducts herself with men: she says, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, no.”’ Wyatt nods; he recognises those words; he looks sorry he spoke them. ‘Now you may have to transpose one word of that testimony. Yes, yes, yes, no, yes.

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

Adultery is the injury of nature.

Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

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

Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

Adultery is extravagance.

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

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

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 a crime.

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

Yo podía disfrutar y quedarme con aquella parte de Abby sin preocuparme por el futuro: la sumisión y la confianza que me estaba entregando en ese instante.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

I fooled around and fell in love.

If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

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 which happened.

Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.