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Quotes About Adultery

So, on May 19th, the woman who had never been the king's wife was executed, for adultery against the king.
~ H F M Prescott
but in show business, adultery isn't a motive for murder; it's a lifestyle.
~ James Patterson
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
~ Helen Fisher
If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
~ Honore de Balzac
I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch.
~ Norman Mailer
This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war. Why, Brigham Young with his countless wives pining on the vine had the gall to state that if you discovered one of your women in adultery, it would behoove you as a good and Christian act to hold her on your lap and run a knife through her breast. That way she'd have her whack at the hereafter.
~ Norman Mailer
Jayda, you know what that sounds like to me? A desperate rationalization to soothe a guilty conscience." "Your opinion is meaningless, Detective. Adultery isn't a crime and telling his wife about our purely carnal relationship now would only add to her pain.
~ Lee Goldberg
There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.
~ Joseph Epstein
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
~ Dorothy Parker
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
~ James McGreevey
Behold, into how great impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by inculcating adultery and murder at the same time! And withal, after such audacious acts, they, lost to all shame, attempt to call themselves a Catholic Church!
~ William J. Bennett
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.
~ Helen Fisher
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often. As a man's marriage becomes less stable, his levels of testosterone rise. With divorce, his testosterone levels rise even more. And single men tend to have higher levels of testosterone than married men.65 The
~ Helen Fisher
the role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous….
~ Leo Tolstoy
He was very well aware that in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin. "But
~ Leo Tolstoy
in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous;
~ Leo Tolstoy
Stavrovicha, is a selfish, vain, and unattractive creature who deserts her husband in favour of a young officer, Balashev. Her elderly, betrayed
~ Leo Tolstoy
I knew my mother hoped I would blame myself, but I didn't. I knew now where the blame lay. If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
~ Jeanette Winterson
sociedad en que el deber de una eterna fidelidad sólo sirve para originar adulterios y donde las mismas leyes del honor y la continencia extienden necesariamente la corrupción y multiplican los abortos.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There was a Catholic priest and the Seventh Day Adventist minister sitting together on one flight. The priest ordered a Scotch and water. The minister said, "I'd rather commit adultery than drink." The priest looked up at me and said, "I didn't know I had a choice today." That was a fun trip.
~ Unknown
You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
~ Unknown
Accusing your own mother of adultery to save your skin is creativity of a kind so special it can almost be called a talent.
~ Clive James
She tries to claw back the stolen half-hour, but her adrenaline is pumping again; her husband went somewhere last night and has woken up in his friend's flat and doesn't know what happened in between. Her husband, who has a career and a mortgage and two children to think about. Her husband, who is forty-five.
~ Lisa Jewell