ADULTERY QUOTES IV

quotations about adultery

Adultery is the new perfectionism, especially for women. Economic power and more freedom of sexual expression mean we are bolder in taking what and who we want, unwilling to be a martyr to marriage -- even if life is so good we'd remarry our husband.... FOMO (fear of missing out) is not just for teens.... Women are still publicly bashful about their keen sexual appetites -- not surprisingly, though, as for 10,000 years, women have had to lie.

ANNA MAXTED

"Helen Fisher and Esther Perel: Infidelity is common, and a 'yearning for freedom'", The Australian, February 22, 2016


There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

The Women

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A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Women", Les Caractères

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Adultery is the injury of nature.

PLATO

attributed, Day's Collacon

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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

JIMMY CARTER

interview, Playboy, 1976

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As long as prehistoric females were secretive about their extramarital affairs, they could garner extra resources, life insurance, better genes, and more varied DNA for their biological futures. Hence those who sneaked into the bushes with secret lovers lived on--unconsciously passing on through the centuries whatever it is in the female spirit that motivates modern women to philander.

HELEN E. FISHER

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray


Adultery probably served ancestral females as an insurance policy. If a "husband" died or deserted home, she had another male she might be able to enlist to help with parental chores.

HELEN E. FISHER

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray


Adultery, as we know, wrecks marriages. It doesn't just wreck them once the innocent party finds out: it begins to wreck them from the moment the act of adultery is committed because adultery is an act of betrayal toward the two people in life you've vowed to be faithful to: your spouse and God.

CHARLES ERLANDSON

"Lust and Adultery", Patheos, September 16, 2016


Adultery is a sin that is heavier than most not because any other sin is lighter, but because of the repercussions it has. When a married person falls into infidelity, it not only affects them but the whole family and even beyond.

PATRICK MABILOG

"Why infidelity never starts with sex and what you can do to guard against it", Christian Today, September 4, 2016


Considering the fact that adultery is summarily denounced and forbidden in the ancient Israelite sex codes, it is of great interest how much adultery there is going on in the Bible among the Israelites.

J. HAROLD ELLENS

Sex in the Bible

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If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

The Women


The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

ELIN HILDERBRAND

A Summer Affair

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The woman ... did not claim to be a victim of "false accusations," she did not defend herself by saying "I didn't commit adultery." No, she acknowledged her sin and answered Jesus by saying, "No one condemned me, Lord." And so Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, [and] from now on do not sin any more." Therefore ... Jesus forgives. But here is something more than forgiveness. Because as confessor, Jesus goes beyond the law. In fact, the law stated that she must be punished. What's more, Jesus was pure and could have cast the first stone. But Christ goes further than that. He does not say adultery is not a sin, but he does not condemn her with the law. This is the mystery of the mercy of Jesus.

POPE FRANCIS

The Name of God Is Mercy


Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook F", Aphorisms

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If an ancestral woman was "married" to a poor hunter with bad eyesight and a fearful or unsupportive temperament, she stood to upgrade her genetic line by having children with another man--Mr. Good Gene.

HELEN E. FISHER

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray


Women have been genetically programmed to have affairs as a "backup" plan in case their relationship fails, said scientists.... David Buss, Cari Goetz and colleagues suggest humans aren't meant to be monogamous and have put forward an alternative theory of human relationships. According to the "mate-switching hypothesis", we have evolved to continually test our romantic relationships and seek out better options. How romantic.

NATALIE GIL

"Here's Why Women Have Affairs, According to Science", refinery29, August 23, 2016


In my line of work, committing adultery is particularly ill-advised. Beyond character ruination and career suicide, there's a lot more at stake when you're married with children and a mortgage.

KATHERINE WILLIS PERSHEY

"The temptation to cheat: Don't even go there", Chicago Tribune, August 19, 2016


How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

JOHN WEBSTER

The Devil's Law Case

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When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.

JOHN GOTTMAN

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

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As the whole universe knows by now, Ashley Madison, a site that promises to help you cheat on your spouse or your money back, was hacked. Some 30 or 40 million past and present "anonymous" users have been exposed. Predictably, a number of the profiles -- especially the female ones -- have proven to be fraudulent, likely created to sucker men into joining the site in hopes of hooking up with young, attractive women. According to some reports, there were close to zero active, real female users. So it would seem the actual subscribers were cruel enough to engage in carefully premeditated infidelity, gullible enough to be duped by an extramarital "dating" site almost entirely populated by dudes, and stupid enough to register their names in a database of adulterers compiled by a company whose very business is dishonesty.

MATT WALSH

"Cheating On Your Spouse Is Not A Mistake", The Blaze, August 28, 2015