quotes about Infidelity
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
-- Ada Leverson -
Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."
-- Arthur Helps -
I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.
-- August TholuckSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 137, 1895.
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
-- Azar NafisiSource : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House
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Married, but not to each other.
-- Barbara MandrellSource : Song: Married But Not to Each Other
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
-- Bette Midler -
She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.
-- Bryan Adams -
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
-- Charles PeguySource : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, (p. 51), 1943.
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Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.
-- Charles Taze RussellSource : Charles Taze Russell (2009). “Studies in the Scriptures”, General Books
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Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.
-- Clayton Christensen -
I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.
-- Coolio -
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
-- Dan Savage -
Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.
-- David Allan CoeSource : Song: Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat, 1995
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I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
-- David Boreanaz -
Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.
-- Delphine de Girardin -
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.
-- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury -
I fooled around and fell in love.
-- Elvin BishopSource : Song: Fooled Around and Fell in Love
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In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
-- Erica Jong -
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
-- Eva Longoria -
one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.
-- Fay Weldon -
When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.
-- Frank Pittman -
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.
-- George SteinerSource : George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber
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You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.
-- Gladys Knight -
with some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal ...
-- Han Suyin -
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They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.
-- Hank Snow -
I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.
-- Huey Lewis -
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
-- Jane Welsh CarlyleSource : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.101, Cambridge University Press
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There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.
-- Jean Baptiste Massillon -
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I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.
-- Jean Paul -
I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
-- Jean Racine -
Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.
-- Jerry HallSource : "Who said that ?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.
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I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.
-- Jerry Lee Lewis -
I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.
-- Jessi ColterSource : Song: I'm Not Lisa, Album: I'm Jessi Colter
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Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.
-- Jessica CapshawSource : "'Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie'". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
-- Josh Billings -
Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.
-- Joy Browne -
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
-- Junot Diaz -
When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.
-- Junot Diaz -
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.
-- Keith Sweat -
If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
-- L. E. Maxwell -
Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
-- Lee Roberson -
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Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.
-- LL Cool J -
Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
-- Lyle Lovett -
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
-- Marguerite Duras -
The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.
-- Mark HopkinsSource : Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.360, Applewood Books
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Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
-- Martin Firrell -
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.
-- Merle Shain -
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In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
-- Miroslav Volf -
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
-- Molly HaskellSource : Molly Haskell (1992). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, Citadel Press
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You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.
-- Nancy Sinatra -
No adultery is bloodless.
-- Natalia GinzburgSource : Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The City and the House: A Novel”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
-- Nathanael EmmonsSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 348, 1895.
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Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
-- Neil Diamond -
You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.
-- Phil Collins -
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.
-- Pope Francis -
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Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
-- Rachel HunterSource : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.
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I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.
-- Randy Newman -
A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.
-- Randy Travis -
I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.
-- Ray Parker, Jr.Source : Song: The Other Woman, Album: The Other Woman
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I'm just the average guy, I fooled around a little on the side.
-- Ray Parker, Jr.Source : Song: The Other Woman, Album: The Other Woman
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I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place.
-- Rhett Akins -
Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.
-- Robert Cray -
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There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
-- Sacha Guitry -
When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
-- Susan Forward -
When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?
-- Tatiana de Rosnay -
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
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Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.
-- Thomas Chalmers -
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.
-- Thomas Huxley -
I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.
-- Tim BirkheadSource : Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.199, A&C Black
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Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.
-- Toby Keith -
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She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
-- Tom T. Hall -
The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.
-- Usher -
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
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When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.
-- William BellSource : Song: Tryin' To Love Two
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Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
-- William McFee -
In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.
-- William Wilberforce -
Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.
-- Zelda Popkin -
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
-- Garcelle BeauvaisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
-- Malachy McCourt -
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
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The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity".
-- Roy Andries De Groot -
No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death.... I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it as it were - and never opened it to my knowledge.
-- William Herndon -
Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
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One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.
-- Madame de La Fayette -