Quotes with adultery

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  • Henry Louis Mencken Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jeremy Taylor 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
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Dorothy Parker He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jimmy Carter I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • William Nicholson The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
    Motherland (2012)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Billy Graham The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Somerset Maugham You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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