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Tag Name "Adultery" (103)

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Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
Rose Macaulay
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
Jeremy Taylor
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Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.
Leonard Michaels
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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft but we do not steal that which is given to us.
Voltaire
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Adultery is extravagance.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Adultery is the injury of nature.
Plato
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Allan Sherman
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Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.
Mary Gaitskill
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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
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
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The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.
Ramsay MacDonald
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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.
Leo Tolstoy
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
Ernest Hemingway
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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
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Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
Francis Schaeffer
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
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One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.
Robert Benchley
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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
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
Al Sharpton
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
Graham Greene
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
Aldous Huxley
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If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation
Saladin
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