Adultery Quotes
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Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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More Adultery Quotes
I was told when a young man that the two occupational hazards of the Palace of Varieties were alcohol and Adultery. The hurroosh that follows the intermittent revelation of the sexual goings-on of an unlucky MP has convinced me that the only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets.
SirJulian Michael Gordon Critchley— 1982 In The Listener,10 Jun.
What men call gallantry, and gods Adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
Rochdale— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto1, stanza 63.
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not commit Adultery" and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
George carlin
Mr Sammler with his screwy visions! He saw the increasing triumph of EnlightenmentLiberty, Equality, Adultery!
Saul Bellow— 1969 Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.3.
L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.
Marcel Proust— ' 1923 A la recherche du temps perdu,'La Prisonni e' re'.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time. Thou shalt not commit Adultery: But I say unto you. That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her already in his heart.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 5:27-8.
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I have committed Adultery in my heart many times.God recognizes I will do that, and forgives me.
— 1976 Playboy interview, Nov.
Do not Adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.
arthur hugh clough— 1862 The Latest Decalogue.
There are few who would not rather be taken in Adultery than in provincialism.
— 1923 Antic Hay, ch.10.
The first breath of Adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Hoyer Updike— 1968 Couples, ch.2.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress Adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
georges bizet— Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G. (October 1866), as quoted in Letters of Composers: An Anthology, 1603-1945 (1946) edited by Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte, p. 241
Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed Adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.
Kenneth Tynan— "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)", p. 409
In Adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
jorge luis borges— "Three Versions of Judas"
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed Adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
jimmy carter— Interview in Playboy magazine (1976), while a candidate for President.
The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing Adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust . You're gonna be pleasing each other, and if he already knows what pleases him, and he's gonna please himself, then why am I in the picture?
Christine O'Donnell— "IX: The Safest Sex of All", Sex in the 90s (MTV), 1996 Rayfield, Jill (14 September 2010), "Christine O'Donnell's 1996 Anti-Masturbation Campaign On MTV's 'Sex In The 90s' (VIDEO)", Talking Points Memo, retrieved on 2010-10-20 "Profile: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Senate candidate", BBC, 20 September 2010, retrieved on 2010-10-20
The first breath of Adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
john updike— Ch. 5 (Couples (1968))
The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of Adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life.
Brigham Young— Journal of Discourses 4:219 (Feb. 8, 1857)
To execute anyone by stoning is barbaric and disgraceful. To execute a woman for Adultery in this cruel way simply beggars belief. Iran should abolish the sentence of stoning once and for all.
— Iran 'adulterer' stoned to death, BBC News, 10 July 2007
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit Adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
— Paul of Tarsus, letter to the Romans 13:8
Striking down an insulting, discriminatory, unconstitutional law will not, as Santorum fears, open the doors to incest, Adultery, bigamy, and bestiality. Straight people blew those doors off their hinges long, long ago.
dan savage— "Savage Love Family Ties". The Stranger (May 8, 2003).
If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to Adultery.
— Loughlin, Sean (April 22, 2003). "Santorum under fire for comments on homosexuality". CNN (Time Warner). Retrieved on October 2, 2007.
Reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing Sterility and to gird themselves round, so as to expel what was conceived on account of their not wanting to have a child either by a slave or by any paltry fellow, for the sake of their family and excessive wealth. Behold, into how great impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by inculcating Adultery and murder at the same time.
— St. Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies 9:7, circa 215.
