ADULTERY

Quote: What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet


Quote: According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.

Author: Joan Collins 1933-, British-born American Actress


Quote: Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say ''Phooey,'' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

Author: Quentin Crisp 1908-, British Author


Quote: My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Author: Loretta Lynn 1935-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter


Quote: You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright


Quote: Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist


Quote: Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Author: Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962, American Actress


Quote: I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929-1994, American First Lady, Wife of John F. Kennedy & Aristotle Onassis


Quote: One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist


Quote: O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor


Quote: 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.

Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer


Quote: It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic


Quote: I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.

Author: Sir John Vanbrugh 1664-1726, British Playwright and Baroque architect


Quote: A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Author: William Wycherley 1640-1716, British Dramatist