Adultery Quotes
Scott Dikkers
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
4598 Joe Haldeman
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
1794 Ama Ata Aidoo
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.
1238 Bauvard
Husband: a man with hopes of being a lover who settles for being a provider, causing his wife to grow suspicious of her depleting jewelry box.
4548 Benson Bruno
The two seemed on casual terms, leading me to wonder how long this limousine had been in her life, and whether she had ever seen the inside, and if so, whether she climbed in the front seat or the back, and if the front, did she help navigate, and if the back, did she change into a fancy dress and sip champagne - or just sparkling wine.
3460 Linda Pastan
To be the other woman
is to be a season
that is always about to end,
when the air is flowered
with jasmine and peach,
and the weather day after day
is flawless,
and the forecast
is hurricane.
2906 Graham Greene
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'
Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.
1153 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
1388 Theodore Roethke
The Mistake
He left his pants upon a chair:
She was a widow, so she said:
But he was apprehended, bare,
By one who rose up from the dead.
1440 Sidney Knight
Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.
1610 Habeeb Akande
Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.
1623 Sylvia Day
A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.
3853 Bill Maher
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
1833 Jennifer Egan
Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
1551 Miriam Defensor Santiago
A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.
1113 Zoë Heller
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
4858 Marcel Proust
But when his mistress for the time being was a woman in society, or at least one whose birth was not so lowly, nor her position is so irregular that he was unable to arrange for her reception in 'society,' then for her sake he would return to it, but only to the particular orbit in which she moved or into which he had drawn her.
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