Infidelity Quotes

  • If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death. — The Bible
  • Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they would never allow you to wound their self-esteem. — Alexandre Dumas
  • So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas
  • It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. — Marcel Achard
  • It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time. — Honoré de Balzac
  • Adultery, Emma discovered, could be just as boring as marriage. — Gustave Flaubert
  • Oh, don’t cry, I’m so sorry I cheated so much, but that’s the way things are. — Vladimir Nabokov
  • Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead. — Marcel Proust
  • To the adulterer who wanted to know if he should swear he didn’t commit adultery, he said, “Adultery’s not worse than perjury. — Thales of Miletus
  • An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know. — Bette Davis
  • How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • When a woman begins to point out that she is honest, it’s time to be wary. — Alfred Capus
  • She is so embarrassed because she cannot have a lover without cheating on her husband. — Georges Feydeau
  • The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology. — H.L. Mencken
  • Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. — Vladimir Nabokov
  • Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. — Marilyn Monroe
  • Adultery is the application of democracy to love. — H.L. Mencken
  • In a couple, at least one should be faithful, preferably the other. — Marcel Achar
  • To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. — George Santayana
  • Excess of passion brings no glory or honor to men. –  Euripides
  • My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. — Lenny Bruce
  • When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy. — Sacha Guitry
  • I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me. — Henry Youngman
  • My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. — Rodney Dangerfield
  • One day as I came home early from work, I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, “Hey buddy, why are you doing that?” He said, “Because you came home early. — Rodney Dangerfield
  • 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 Steiner
  • Bad marriages don’t cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. – Frank Pittman
  • When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • 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
  • I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity. – Eva Longoria
  • 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 fooled around and fell in love. – Elvin Bishop
  • 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
  • Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees. – Delphine de Girardin
  • I haven’t been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible. – David Boreanaz
  • 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 Coe
  • The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. – Dan Savage
  • I don’t have to ask you where you’ve been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn. – Coolio
  • Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. – Clayton Christensen
  • The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. – Charles Peguy
  • Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one’s kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. – Catherynne M. Valente
  • The wages of sin is alimony. – Carolyn Wells
  • A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. – C. S. Lewis
  • She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I. – Bryan Adams
  • Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces. – Bette Midler
  • Married, but not to each other. – Barbara Mandrell
  • Every great work of art … is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. – Azar Nafisi
  • 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 Tholuck
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. – Ambrose Bierce
  • 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
  • She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night. – Ada Leverson
  • It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. – Abraham Lincoln
  • 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
  • Adultery is extravagance. – Maxine Hong Kingston
  • 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
  • Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity. – Martin Firrell
  • 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 Hopkins
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain’t nobody humpin’ around. – Keith Sweat
  • Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. – Katherine Anne Porter
  • 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
  • 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
  • Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do. – Joy Browne
  • There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel. – Josh Billings
  • Infidelity is horrible – there’s nothing worse than that; it’s devastating. – Jessica Capshaw
  • I’m coming on home to you instead cause they’re all too ugly tonight. – Jerry Lee Lewis
  • There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities. – Jerry Hall
  • 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
  • I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true? – Jean Racine