W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct."
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Adultery
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Prince Charles
Royalty
"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor."
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"Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us."
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"Adultery is the injury of nature."
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"The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!"
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"Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me."
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"You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'."
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"Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead."
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"Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders."
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"All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery."
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"She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I."
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"There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation."
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"There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG."
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"I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions."
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"She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."
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"Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once."
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"The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord."
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"Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage."
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"The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage."
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"If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will."
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"I was almost always true to you."
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"Adulterers, take warning, never admit."
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