Adultery

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

- Anthony Burgess Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry.

- George Gordon Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

- Liam Neeson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.

- Rick Santorum Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

- Jimmy Carter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

- Martin King Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy Oh, Satan one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all

- Marquis De Sade Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

- Anthony Burgess Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

- John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We don't have the death penalty for adultery.

- Boris Kayser Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

- Cleo Moore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

- Joyce Cary Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Any way it happens, the combined sexual-emotional affair delivers a fatal blow not just to marriages but to the traditional male code. The double standard for adultery is disappearing, ... It's been around for 5,000 years and it's changing in our lifetime. It's quite striking. Men used to feel that they had the right. They don't feel that anymore.

- Helen Fisher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No adultery is bloodless.

- Natalia Ginzburg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say ''Phooey,'' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

- Quentin Crisp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

- Henry Mencken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man'' thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

- Johnny Cash Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

- Dorothy Rothschild Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

On sharing space with Robert Benchley while working on 'Vanity Fair,' magazine He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

- Dorothy Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes