Infidelity Quotes

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

love

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

women

[He] has decided to take himself a wife, but he hasn't decided yet whose.

The trouble with marrying your mistress is that you create a job vacancy.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Extramarital sex is as overrated as premarital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

I am not faithful but I am attached.

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

wife

Infidelities may be forgiven, but never forgotten.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

marriage

The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was.

No adultery is bloodless.

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate.  Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

For that is what adultery is, a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out.

Adultery. Democracy applied to love.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all the fidelities are undermined.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.