Quotes About Affair

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

Mind, as to Gauguin we must not give up the idea of coming to his aid if the suggestion is acceptable as it stands, but we do not need him. So do not think that working alone bothers me, and do not push the affair on my account, be very sure of that.

I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the city. I was too old to think him poetic, but I did.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

An unfortunate affair of the heart! He smiled grimly, dipping his pen. Perhaps Hal had a greater sensitivity than he'd thought, in so describing it. But then, all his affairs had been unfortunate, since Hector's death at Culloden. With the thought of Culloden, the thought of Fraser came back to him; something he had been avoiding all day.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

In his book on the saint, Chesterton says that, for Francis, religion was not a theory but a love affair, and "there are those who do not believe that a heavenly love can be as real as an earthly love.

Really, my dear, you should count your blessings that I didn't show up. How horrified your gently-bred friends would've been to have Satan himself darkening their charming affair! But never mind that. I'm more intrigued by your calling card." He faded into the gloom for a moment and reappeared with the damp oar, which he casually handed down to the grinning fisherman. "Quite an unusual one for a — ahem — lady, is it not?

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

Mother had an affair with the milkman, who later became my stepdad and my father left. My stepdad was an angry guy and Mother was a hysterical narcissist. It was a toxic mixture and there was a lot of disruption and violent arguments in the house.

If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret.

Wendell's beard is stylish. Scruffy. Unkempt. Rakish. He looks . . . attractive? I remember my earlier denial of any romantic transference with him. And I'd been truthful—as far as I was aware. But why was I so profoundly uncomfortable right now? Had my unconscious been having a passionate affair with Wendell behind my back?

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Yes, facts were necessary. But frankly, anyone could be trained to collect a bloodstain or find a hair. Or an affair. Or a bank balance that didn't balance. But feelings? Only the bravest wandered into that fiery realm.

From the outset, he had assumed that his word as a gentleman would be accepted and that the whole affair would be settled quietly, the way Savannah had settled past incidents involving prominent suspects

Don't talk to me about Valentines Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

I have had this interesting love affair with London and England, though I don't know how London feels about me.

For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.

The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry Father! from a full heart . . . the refusal to look up to God as our father is the one central wrong in the whole human affair; the inability, the one central misery.

Francis and Mary were to admit that Elizabeth's role in the whole affair had all along been that of an impartial umpire

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Sometimes I think about you, the memories, all the things we've shared...I just start to cry and realize that you had an affair.