Top 217 Adultery Quotes & Sayings

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith (apostates) or have same-sex relationships. Sharia methods of execution, such as stoning, are particularly brutal and cruel - witness the stoning to death this week in Somalia of a 20-year-old woman divorcee who was accused of adultery. This is the fourth stoning of an adulterer in Somalia in the last year.

Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

A Muslim woman was found in adultery or fornication and we know that there could be no pregnancy without the agency of a man, unless we are dealing with the virgin birth. Yet no man is charged with this crime. Where is the man in this case of adultery or fornication? Why isn't he being stoned? There is science today that can prove whether the man she claims is the father of her unborn child is actually so. So, if the law was fair, then, it would be carried out on both.

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

I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

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

Adultery is extravagance.

'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal!

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

Adultery is an image of hell.

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

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.

[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?

Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.

Adultery is the injury of nature.

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

Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

No adultery is bloodless.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?