171 Quotes About Adultery

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Adultery often happens, I am sure, because you are on a sinking ship, and you need to leap but can't leap. You are too spineless, maybe, to leap.The water is too dark and choppy and the sea is too large. Saving your own life, even, isn't enough reason to jump- no, you need the hands at your back, pushing, the hands of something as unavoidable and inevitable and imperative as love.It's got to be something that big, you know, to get you to jump.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

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.

Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?

One evening, on being quite occupied by the state of the struffoli, I seated the Duca di San Orvieta with the Duchessa opposite, and between two of his mistresses. They fought over his attentions, above the table and below, like squid intent on extracting a mollusc from its shell. The poor man was so distracted that he hardly ate a bite. The Duchessa’s words to me afterwards were not lacking in picturesque vividness.

Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.