(70 quotes found)
“Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.”
Lord Altrincham
“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.”
Anthony Burgess
“Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight”
William Shakespeare
“Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.”
John Skow
“Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; / And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? / Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.”
Bible
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
“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
“I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws”
Jerry Falwell
“Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.”
