Top 100 Quotes About Adultery
#1. The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever
#2. Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull
#3. He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker
#4. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.
Simon Garfield
#5. The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.
Joseph Haydn
#6. 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
#7. Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
Peter S. Prescott
#8. The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
Gautama Buddha
#9. Third tale (aka short stories) - His name is Sun and Adultery. My husband's is Elias. My children are named Enilson and Joaquim. I want them all to die. Except him. (That first one, light and bed.) I'm very sorry, my God, but there it is. Signed: Lazinha.
Hilda Hilst
#10. I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
Andre Balazs
#11. The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H.L. Mencken
#12. She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
Gustave Flaubert
#13. If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
Zoe Heller
#14. Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.
Sam Storms
#15. And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.
Michael McDowell
#16. Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.
John Ridley
#17. But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
Craig Groeschel
#18. One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.
Robert Benchley
#19. Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
Adam Gopnik
#20. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.
Rene Girard
#21. I think all women believe adultery is a betrayal of themselves as women, while many men, in my experience, think of it as an endorsement of their true natures.
Justin Cartwright
#22. Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.
Mason Cooley
#23. Anointing doesn't guarantee protection from fornication, adultery or lust
Sunday Adelaja
#24. It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.
Aristotle.
#26. Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
#27. I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
Nancy Astor
#28. The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#29. Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
Ben Macintyre
#30. I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
Steve Garvey
#31. Nothing optional
from homosexuality to adultery
is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Helen Fisher
#33. The fatherhood crisis is a generator of an incredible dimension of fornication and adultery.
Sunday Adelaja
#34. In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
Aristotle.
#35. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus Christ
#36. You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,
Enters the devil murder.
John Webster
#37. If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#39. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
Rick Santorum
#40. If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation
Saladin
#41. I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.
Mike Pence
#43. There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
Aldous Huxley
#44. Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
Graham Greene
#45. The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm.
Sunday Adelaja
#46. A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
Umberto Eco
#47. A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.
Rowan Williams
#48. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
#49. Ah," said Arthur, "er ... " He had an odd feeling of being like a man in the act of adultery who is surprised when the woman's husband wanders into the room, changes his trousers, passes a few idle remarks about the weather and leaves again.
Douglas Adams
#51. My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery ... but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#52. Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?
John Cheever
#53. Adultery can indeed be pleasant, and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.
Robert Farrar Capon
#54. As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Georges Bizet
#55. The popular Press always talk as if only the rich committed adultery. One really can't imagine a more snobbish assumption.
Anthony Powell
#56. Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.
Rupert Smith
#57. All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.
C.S. Lewis
#58. Planned Parenthood is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism - everything that the Bible condemns.
Pat Robertson
#59. When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?
Deion Sanders
#60. On adultery: Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
Paul Newman
#61. Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.
Mary Gaitskill
#62. I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic parental instincts for keeping the children out of harm's way. The drip, drip, drip of her poor judgment and neglect was pushing me over the edge.
James Whitfield Thomson
#63. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Robert J. Sawyer
#64. Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H.L. Mencken
#65. I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.
Vicki Baum
#67. French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn
#68. The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
Joseph Prince
#69. Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
Nora Roberts
#70. Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler
#71. Then there were the general moral duties: not to commit adultery or fornication, not to stay out late at night after 8 p.m. frequenting inns and brothels, and not to play cards except during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Jasper Ridley
#72. Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
Martin Luther
#73. Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.
Edith Pearlman
#74. If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.
Christopher Hitchens
#75. On considering adultery - Why go out for hamburger when I can have steak at home?
Paul Newman
#76. Take adultery or theft.
Merely sins.
It is evil who dines on the soul,
stretching out its long bone tongue.
It is evil who tweezers my heart,
picking out its atomic worms.
Anne Sexton
#77. The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
John Updike
#78. The prophets Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, for example, often used the metaphors of adultery and prostitution to indict those they accused of being "unfaithful" to God's covenant.
Elaine Pagels
#79. Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#80. The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.
Steve Kluger
#81. I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery.
Ann Eliza Young, page 253
David Ebershoff
#82. Presumably, God could have written these books any way He wanted. And if He wanted them to be understood in the spirit of twenty-first-century secular rationality, He could have left out all those bits about stoning people to death for adultery or witchcraft.
Sam Harris
#83. The things he had understood to be sin (murder, adultery, etc.) he now understood to be mere symptoms of the real problem: unbelief.
Michael Reeves
#84. Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#85. Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.
Mark Driscoll
#86. Leviticus 18 doesn't tell us everything we need to know about sex, but it gives us the basic rules: incest is bad (vv. 6-27); taking a rival wife is bad (v 18) ... adultery is bad (v 20); killing our children is bad (v 21); homosexuality activity is bad (v 22); and bestiality is bad (v 23).
Kevin DeYoung
#87. Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.
Brendon Small
#88. Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.
Jared Diamond
#90. Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Lactantius
#91. I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell
#92. They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
Barry Cryer
#93. Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.
Graham Greene
#94. You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it.
Gregory Maguire
#95. An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery
Sunday Adelaja
#97. There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
Aristotle.
#98. The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.
Ramsay MacDonald
#99. Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
Joyce Cary
#100. The end result of adultery and fornication is spiritual and even physical death.
Sunday Adelaja
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