Quotes about Adultery

Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:
Arthur Hugh Clough

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. H L Mencken

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

I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do – and I have done it – and God forgives me for it. Jimmy Carter

Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. Peter S Prescott

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. Dorothy Parker