Quotes About Affair

It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.

I keep it for its sentimental value," he said, his voice harder. "It was the last place we made love before you ended our previous affair.

She felt the lurch of a head rush. The boy who had not paid attention to her; the man who'd embarked on an affair knowing she could never be his; at the last moment he was asking for more. A piece of her was elated. But she was also struck by his selfishness.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Her heart leapt, which made no sense at all. This was not to be an affair of the heart. There would be affection certainly, but nothing more. Apparently her heart wasn't aware of her plans. Odd, she'd never known it to be rebellious before.

I definitely never had an affair with the president.

Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

You don't know, my dear minister, all that can be made in the provinces of a judicial affair when adroitly manipulated, — cooked, as I may say. In my long and laborious career at the bar I saw plenty of that kind of miracle. But a parliamentary debate is another thing. In that there's no need of proof; one can kill one's man with probabilities and assertions, if hotly maintained.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

True prose stylists carry on an impassioned lifelong love affair with words, banishing mediocre ones like so many uninteresting suitors, burnishing the good ones till they shimmer. Be infatuated, be seduced, be obsessed.

Where there's smoke, there's fire: the wand cards can indicate that sparks are about to fly, that passions may be enflamed, and that an affair is about to heat up.

Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...

A love affair is a grafting operation. "What has once been joined never forgets". There is a moment when the graft takes; up to then it is possible without difficulty the separation which afterwards comes only through breaking off a great hunk of oneself; the ingrown fibre of hours, days, years.

They walked on and, as they walked, they discussed the affair in the same disjointed uncomfortable way. "Oh hell!" exclaimed Roy at last. "This has bust up our whole trip—I wish Hitler was dead." "You can't wish it more than I do," replied Frank.

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

But a bunch of Lucille and Mr. Wykowski's friends came over, and they brought out the big guns—Kahlua and milk. Which meant that Jeopardy was a rowdy affair, after which Callie fell asleep on her grandma's couch.

Every relationship ended. Sometimes it ended voluntarily with a break-up or an affair. Sometimes it ended with death. Only the lucky ones died together. Everyone else had to suffer through being a survivor. And she hated that term most of all.

In some ways it was the conventional clandestine affair in a place like San Bernardino, a place where little is bright or graceful, where it is routine to misplace the future and easy to start looking for it in bed.

When hes late for dinner, I know hes either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope its the street.

Being the other woman isn't as fun as it looks in the movies...just saying.

Being the 'other woman' is fun until your conscience acts up or you get caught.

Being the other woman does not make you special, it makes you a runner-up.

Being the other woman does not make you special or the selected one, it makes you runner-up in a never ending race for his love and affection.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.