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Quotes About Adultery

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.
~ Mike Nichols
Those left at home, the Amises, Murdochs, Drabbles and Byatts, subsisting in an England that has 'been too cosy, too easy to live in', have avoided the shocks of the life overseas and hence have had to 'make literature out of suburban adultery'.
~ Roger Lewis
If the shar'ia required that a woman suspected of adultery should be stoned to death, the Bhagvad Gita establishes a mindset by referring to women and low castes as sinfully born, and khap panchayats do the rest.
~ Romila Thapar
A opinião geral da tia Toinette, de que se deve odiar o adultério, não o adúltero, era essencialmente a visão de Tolstói, e é essa a razão pela qual Anna Kariênina é um dos personagens literários mais instigantes e complexos já criados.
~ Rosamund Bartlett
all words, scenes and claims of participants in the feud are documented in source notes. Though the feud began with adultery, Emily Dickinson became its focus after her death, each side battling for her unpublished papers. The issue was not so much money as the right to own the poet—the right to say who she was.
~ Lyndall Gordon
This blend of truth and evasion was to characterise future legend. Todd did encounter words like blades but, as mouthpiece for the family, never mentions this, any more than Jane Austen's family saw fit to mention her sarcasms. Nineteenth-century families project an image of an authoress as retiring lady whose gift shades into an uneventful life. Nothing could be said of sickness, love, adultery or the rising fire of the feud.
~ Lyndall Gordon
In the 1880s the focus of the feud had been adultery; in the 1890s the focus shifted to the divided treasure the poet had left behind. Who had the right to possess her? Who had the right to say what she was?
~ Lyndall Gordon
I am not so naive that I have not heard of adultery. And while I am very forbearing in a lot of things, should I ever get wind that you are sharing my 'that' with anyone else, I shall surely cut it off and mount it on the mantel.
~ Lynsay Sands
But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
~ Maggie Shayne
The statistics show that the Southerner who can avoid arguments and adultery is as safe as any other American, and probably safer." In the backcountry, violence wasn't for economic gain. It was personal. You fought over your honor.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
try not to sleep with our sister's husbands
~ Amulya Malladi
What, after all, is the punishment for taking the Lord's name in vain? It happens to be death (Leviticus 24:16). What is the punishment for working on the Sabbath? Also death (Exodus 31:15). What is the punishment for cursing one's father or mother? Death again (Exodus 21:17). What is the punishment for adultery?
~ Sam Harris
I m not about to tell him that I am just like Anna and Emma, an adulteress. My books are my secret lovers, the friends I run to to get away from the daily drudgeries of life, to try out something new, and yes, to get away, for a few hours, from him. He doesn't need to know that my books are the affairs I don't have.
~ Sara Nelson
don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. Yes, thought Wilhelm, suffering is the only kind of life they are sure they can have, and if they quit suffering they're afraid they'll have nothing.
~ Saul Bellow
Through Malachi, God chastises them for "thinking that the Lord's table may be despised" (Malachi 1:7). That's strong language, but it rings true. A man who insists that he loves his wife while he lavishes the finest gifts upon his mistress does not truly love his wife.
~ Scott Hahn
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.
~ Randall Terry
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
~ Jerry Falwell
My husband was a serial adulterer, and there was nothing I could do about it: no questions I could ask him, no argument I could have with him, no explanation he could give me or pleas he could make for forgiveness.
~ Ingrid Seward
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
~ Billy Graham
Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.
~ Rupert Smith
Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
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 have been left for dead.
~ Marcel Proust
The worst thing about adultery was that it made you see your life for what it was: something that was nearly impossible to escape.
~ Elin Hilderbrand