Top 100 Quotes About Infidelity
#1. I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney Dangerfield
#2. Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
Pope Francis
#3. Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
Lee Roberson
#5. I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
Olivia Wilde
#6. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#7. It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
Alain De Botton
#8. Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.
Zelda Popkin
#9. In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
Erica Jong
#10. So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Leonard Cohen
#11. God's faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.
Pope Francis
#12. There was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.
Albert Camus
#13. Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
Scott Dikkers
#15. I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#17. Sorry," said Tristan. "No can do, I've used up all my infidelity tolerance minutes this month.
Z.A. Maxfield
#18. This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
Suzanne Finnamore
#19. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.
Jean Paul
#20. This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
Suzanne Finnamore
#21. It is in the immediacy of our personal lives that our proclamations for a better world acquire real life meaning.
Meryn G. Callander
#22. I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.
Suzanne Finnamore
#23. It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.
Jenny Offill
#24. There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.
Jerry Hall
#25. After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.
Claire Dyer
#26. A stronger deterrent to infidelity even than love was the desire to maintain a stable household, a stress-free life.
Matthew Thomas
#27. It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.
Jason Versey
#28. I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state."
Milan Kundera, "The Paris Review" summer 1984 no. 92
Milan Kundera
#29. Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.
Frank Pittman
#31. Like the worthless dogs that are his countrymen, my husband believed that his penis was wasted if he was faithful to just one woman. - At the Sound of the Last Post
Petina Gappah
#32. We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual helped me heal and become ready to consider the person who murdered Angela, his story, his pain.
Desmond Tutu
#33. The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
Herbert Spencer
#34. I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#35. She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
Ada Leverson
#36. I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.
Ray Parker Jr.
#37. The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
David Hewson
#38. But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#39. No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
John Vanbrugh
#41. If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.
Shania Twain
#43. Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.
Charles Simmons
#45. If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.
Robin Hobb
#46. The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
Bill Maher
#48. Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.
Cynthia Heimel
#49. It's a very female thing, isn't it, to take one boys' night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?
Gillian Flynn
#50. People often hold technology responsible for infidelity. (...) But while things like Facebook, texting, and email certain make it easier for people (particularly lazy people!) to blur the boundaries of their relationships, it's still the people involved who are to blame.
Erin Cossar
#51. I can't assume responsibility for a man's infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.
Lorraine Maloney Armstrong
#52. Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
Patrick McGrath
#53. she was always falling for the guys who promised her the moon and then delivered stinky cheese with a side of infidelity.
Ann Charles
#54. Cullan was already inside her room, walking toward her. The sliding door was reduced to shards.
"I asked you nicely." Cullan said in a loud voice. "Why won't you even-"
"Is swearing nice to you?"
"You riled me up!"
"You kissed another woman!
Nicholaa Spencer
#56. If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
L.E. Maxwell
#57. Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.
Joy Browne
#58. My husband obstinately believed in the simplicity of commitment, not as default but as an act of will, a decision. We choose to stay in the lives we ourselves have chosen.
Vogue Magazine
Marcia DeSanctis
#59. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.
Meryn G. Callander
#60. For Jesus' sake go forward yourself, and encourage others to do the like. Hell and the bands of superstition and infidelity are forward to the fight. O soldiers of the cross, keep not back!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.
Meryn G. Callander
#62. There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it's the endings we're unprepared for.
Katherine Owen
#63. There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.
Bruce Springsteen
#64. If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard
#65. People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
Junot Diaz
#66. I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.
Jessica Capshaw
#67. For those who have a desire to know, and those in the throes of desire.
Elda M. Lopez
#69. I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
Michael Zaslow
#70. Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
Neil Diamond
#71. Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
Samuel Johnson
#72. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.
Patrick McGrath
#73. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Molly Haskell
#74. The experiment, so far as its original projectors were concerned, proved, long ago, a failure; first lapsing into Fourierism, and dying, as it well deserved, for this infidelity to its own higher spirit. Where
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#75. Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. I commit sin everytime I am with you, but it is a happy sin and I am willing to pay for it.
Alfonso P. Santos
#79. I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.
Suzanne Finnamore
#80. Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.
Robert Cray
#81. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
#82. Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
Lyle Lovett
#83. Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.
Ariana Carruth
#84. Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
Voltaire
#85. In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Miroslav Volf
#87. Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like
a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only
find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.
Frank Pittman
#88. The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
Malachy McCourt
#89. I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!
Kit Williamson
#91. Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
Junot Diaz
#92. You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.
Gladys Knight
#93. I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.
Tim Birkhead
#94. They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.
Suzanne Finnamore
#95. I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
Suzanne Finnamore
#96. Reflecting on the night before, he found it extraordinary that after a lifetime of infidelities, a night with an imaginary friend was no less exciting.
Ian McEwan
#99. (On getting married at 19)
We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.
Crystal Woods
#100. Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
Ambrose Bierce
