Adultery

(413 votes)   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
1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

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(378 votes)   O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

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

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(375 votes)   What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(270 votes)   Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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

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(270 votes)   You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

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

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(267 votes)   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.

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

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(267 votes)   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.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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(267 votes)   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.

Quentin Crisp
1908-, British Author

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(262 votes)   I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

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

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(254 votes)   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.

Joan Collins
1933-, British-born American Actress

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