Top 100 Affair Quotes
#1. Even funnier, the guy at the front desk thinks I am either a hooker or having an affair with a married man. He was more than discrete."
"I would have guessed affair," I joked.
Andrea Heltsley
#2. This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#3. He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and considered this particular example to have been, upon the whole, a rather dull affair.
Susanna Clarke
#4. One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.
M.F.K. Fisher
#5. I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.
Paul Johnson
#6. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Vironika Tugaleva
#7. When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.
John M. Gottman
#8. When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Alfred Kazin
#9. My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it ... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.
Bipasha Basu
#10. I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
Marcus Samuelsson
#11. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.
Agatha Christie
#12. My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!
Honore De Balzac
#13. Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
Buck Henry
#14. Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.
David Mamet
#15. Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
Aldous Huxley
#16. In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.
Noam Chomsky
#17. Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
Howard Schultz
#18. To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
Andre Maurois
#19. Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.
Khalil Gibran
#20. I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
Aphra Behn
#21. It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
W. Somerset Maugham
#22. Like any true story, the end of the affair is messy and unsatisfactory:
Neil Gaiman
#23. The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
Sophie Kinsella
#24. 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
#25. So, if there are any couples here this evening having a secret extramarital affair, I encourage you to breed.
Alison Larkin
#26. Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?
Francine Prose
#27. Bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch.
Descriptive on an affair
Susan Richards Shreve
#28. There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within
not without. It is each man's own affair.
H.G.Wells
#29. We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
Norman Mailer
#30. It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
Thomas Moore
#31. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Emily Carr
#32. We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.
Colum McCann
#33. I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!
Prabal Gurung
#34. I shall entrust my affair to God, for God is Observant of [His] worshippers.
Quran-Ghafir(44)
Anonymous
#35. Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.
Alana Stewart
#36. There are reports that French President Francois Hollande had an affair with an actress who is 18 years younger than him. It's pretty serious. Under French law, he could face up to 30 high fives.
Jimmy Fallon
#37. I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
Melanie Roach
#38. Who do you look like?" I laugh.
"No one. My father used to joke that my mother must have had an affair with the milkman.
Amy Ewing
#39. Friday's "Working Lunch" is at The Avenue on St James's Street. It's a bit like eating in an art installation, a White-Out affair that tries for a So-Serious NYC feel, but is occupied by Daddy's Girls wearing pashmina's and too many Pin Stripes worn by too many people called Hugo.
Simon Pont
#40. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
Freddy Fender
#41. All those moments between those seconds. Timeless. Their love would always be alive; a living, beating heart, but just caught in a moment. Caught in their time. Maybe that's all they were. Just a time in love. Just a time in an affair.
Stylo Fantome
#42. The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes De Mille
#43. Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
Moliere
#44. Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life
Rex Stout
#45. Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.
R. YS Perez
#46. The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Lionel Blue
#47. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
James Hollis
#48. A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
Ryan Holiday
#49. Depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.
William Styron
#50. Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it
David Quammen
#51. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Helen Gurley Brown
#52. Mr. Baggins was still officially their expert burglar and investigator. If he liked to risk a light, that was his affair. They would wait in the tunnel for his report.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#53. Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#54. The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#55. When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#56. I long ago decided that anything that could be finished in my lifetime was necessarily too small an affair to engross my full interest.
Ernest DeWitt Burton
#57. My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
Debra Messing
#58. I like to put good food in my mouth, and while I am aware of the calories I ingest, instead of cutting them I make them count. I have a full-on love affair with food, appreciating the different cultures and processes within it.
Brittany Gibbons
#59. Don't make your journey toward success a competition - make it a love affair.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.
Fay Weldon
#61. Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?
Cole Porter
#62. My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
Carol Vorderman
#63. For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#64. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Francois Lelord
#65. Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides
#66. My decision (for Christ) was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair. I was decided upon.
C.S. Lewis
#67. I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
Daniel Alarcon
#68. I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation
which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.
John Wyndham
#69. This chick had a serious love affair going on with my hair. I wondered if I should offer to leave her alone with it. Seriously, if she started rubbing her face against it, I was out.
Tiffany King
#70. I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.
Priyanka Chopra
#71. Visit me before I die. We can enjoy one another's company. A funeral is a rather one-sided affair.
Ralph Webster
#72. A man who had a love affair was considered wicked but romantic; a woman who did the same was a whore.
Ken Follett
#73. I will piss on deadlines. I will forget I am married. I will do nothing but read, read, read when it's a Book Affair.
Lainey
#74. Helping to match people to the book that would change their life, or make them fall in love, or get over a love affair gone wrong. And for the children, she could show them where to dive into a crocodile-infested river, or fly through the stars, or open the door of a wardrobe...
Jenny Colgan
#75. Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
Mel Torme
#76. FUTURE YOUNG LOVERS AFFAIR WILL BE ALLOWED IF COURT AFFIDAVIT WED KNOT OKED BY THEIR PARENTS&RELATIVES.FAILING ALL SELF OWN SOCIAL RIGHTS FORFEITED TO KEEP THEM ALOOF FOREVER.
Various
#77. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
Jane Urquhart
#78. The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
Brenda Blethyn
#80. The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life.
Jonathan Franzen
#81. Why him?He was as likely to offer me security and safety as a violent terrorist holding a gun to my head.So why I had chosen him?Because he had charmed me into a love affair,had truly convinced me he was madly in love with me.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#82. I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
John Burnside
#83. 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.
Louis Begley
#84. The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.
Don Asher
#85. In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
Alicia Vikander
#86. Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
Mavis Gallant
#88. Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all.
Virginia Woolf
#89. Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
Oprah Winfrey
#91. I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.
Howard Dietz
#92. Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
Israel Shenker
#93. I'm going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.
Jennifer Estep
#95. I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.
Steve Martin
#96. When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#97. A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#98. Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America's Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love affair on the part of the media and many intellectuals with Fidel Castro.
Armando Valladares
#99. I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the couch with my wife and we can dissect The Affair, The Americans, House of Cards, or whatever it is. I'm so lucky.
Scott Foley
#100. For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair" ... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
Salman Rushdie
