Famous Quotes - Tags - Adultery

  • ...he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself. He will get wounds and... More
  • ..for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s very... More
  • A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but... More
  • A prudent cuckold (and there are many such at Paris) pockets his horns, when he cannot gore with... More
  • Adulterers, take warning, never admit. More
  • Adultery is the application of democracy to love. More
  • Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
    It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that... More
  • Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy... More
  • Adultery?
    Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No.
    The wren goes to ‘t, and the small... More
  • Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. More
  • An honest woman’s son, for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a... More
  • Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit... More
  • Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and... More
  • Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one’s clothes? Or can one walk on hot coals... More
  • Christian—One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. More
  • For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will... More
  • For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she... More
  • Greasing the bodies of adulterers
    Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
    The sin. The sin. More
  • He [Johnson] talked of the heinousness of the crime of adultery, by which the peace of families... More
  • I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the... More
  • I tell you, you’re ruining that boy. You’re ruining him. Why can’t you do as much for me? More
  • Is it not ironic, oh my husband? Your wife an adulteress. Your mother an adulteress. Your uncle... More
  • It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies;... More
  • It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
    Let me not name it to you, you chaste... More
  • Jesus said, “When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.” But he is an adulterer... More
  • Leo: What was she, a TV groupie? A hooker?
    Rob: No, she was not a TV groupie, or a hooker.... More
  • Lest, once more wandering from that heaven,
    I fall on some base heart unblest,
    Faithless... More
  • Let’s face it, I have been momentary.
    A luxury. A bright red sloop in the harbor, More
  • Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those... More
  • Little adulteress,
    before they punished you

    you were... More
  • Little Marthe did it again today. More
  • Look,
    when it is over he places her,
    like a phone, back on the hook. More
  • Madame d’Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my... More
  • Marriages will survive despite enormous strains. A lover will ask, “Is he happy? Can he still... More
  • Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a... More
  • My libertinage in no wise affects my husband ... my husband is no more sullied by my debauches... More
  • No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them. More
  • O curse of marriage,
    That we can call these delicate creatures ours
    And not their appetites! More
  • Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes—who... More
  • Oh, the shame of it! That I should live to see a son of mine try to take a dame away from his... More
  • On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and... More
  • One man’s folly is often another man’s wife. More
  • Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover,... More
  • Quoth she, “I have loved thee, Little Musgrave,
    Full long and many a day;”
    “So have... More
  • Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor. More
  • She has always been there, my darling.
    She is, in fact, exquisite.
    Fireworks in the dull... More
  • She took you the way a woman takes
    a bargain dress off the rack
    and I broke the way a... More
  • Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done... More
  • Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes. More
  • Tell me, Frank. Have you been indulging in what I call Mrs. Weaver’s weakness for social... More
  • Tell me, how many hands have palpated the pulp that has grown so generously around your hard,... More
  • The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. More
  • There have been,
    Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now,
    And many a man there is, even... More
  • Thou shalt not commit adultery. More
  • Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive
    Officiously to keep alive:
    Do not adultery... More
  • To marry a fool is to be no fool. More
  • What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
    Is much more common where the climate’s sultry. More
  • What shall he have that killed the deer?
    His leather skin and horns to wear.
    Then sing... More
  • What was thy cause?
    Adultery?
    Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No,
    The wren goes... More
  • When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. More
  • Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his... More
  • You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just... More
  • You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly,... More
  • “It is with Love as with Cuckoldom”Mthe suffering party is at least the third, but generally... More

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