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Quotes About Affair

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.
~ Stephen Karam
I felt 'Quantum of Solace' completely lost its way. We were lucky on 'Casino Royale:' it was the origin story of Bond. Bond had the one and only affair that meant anything to him, and affected him throughout the rest of the series.
~ Martin Campbell
The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up and threatened male sex against him, John was terrified.
~ May Pang
Mr. Moore-tól hallom a nagy újságot, hogy Lady Castlemaine kegyvesztett lett és ma reggel elhagyta az udvart. Okát nem tudja, csak azt, hogy így van, amit én nagyon sajnálok, de ha a király nemcsak ?t hagyja el, hanem a többi szeret?it is, akkor szívb?l örülök ennek, mert úgy lehet, akkor majd többet tör?dik az ország dolgaival.
~ Samuel Pepys
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
~ Arnold Bennett
And the girl started up as if to go and kill herself in her turn, throw herself in her turn into the sea, and afterwards she wept because she thought of the man from Cholon and suddenly she wasn't sure she hadn't loved him with a love she hadn't seen because it had lost itself in the affair like water in sand and she rediscovered it only now, through this moment of music flung across the sea.
~ Marguerite Duras
Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years — Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
~ Marisha Pessl
From the very beginning, and throughout the whole of our affair, I had the privilege of knowing what we all find out in the end: the man we love is a complete stranger.
~ Annie Ernaux
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best —
~ Anthony Bourdain
There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar;--but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing.
~ Anthony Trollope
You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.
~ Ariel Levy
life was not a joyride at an amusement park. It was a deadly serious affair and only through a combination of solid values, self-control, and a steady commitment to a worthwhile goal was there a chance to achieve happiness.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.
~ John Piper
If we are not captured by his personality and character, then all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitude of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man.
~ John Piper
Remember ... the middle class have to be kept under control. They understand that, and police themselves. Not with guns and gulags, but with social codes. The right way to have sex, treat your wife, flirt at tennis parties or start an affair. There are unspoken rules we all have to learn.
~ ballard j g ii
The affair made men feel larger than life.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I was humiliated to be charged with something so contemptible as sexual harassment. People think we had this big affair. It was a personal relationship that amounted to very little. I told her that I thought it was a mistake, and she became furious and sued me. She ended up dropping the case.
~ barker bob ii
The affair ran the usual course. Fever, boredom, trapped.
~ barthelme donald ii
I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.
~ Leo Sayer
The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists.
~ George Orwell
Ten or twelve couples? No, no, Dassett would not be talking of red carpets and awnings for such a paltry affair as that!' said his lordship. These ominous words struck a chill into his wife's soul.
~ Georgette Heyer
Mr Comyn gathered up his hand and began to sort the cards. I must thank you, I suppose, but anything in the nature of irregularity, or clandestine conduct, is distasteful to me - especially in this delicate affair. Then you shouldn't ally yourself with my family, replied his lordship.
~ Georgette Heyer
The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted all along.
~ Sarah Manguso