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.
There are few who would not rather be taken in Adultery than in provincialism.
— 1923 Antic Hay, ch.10.
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
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.
al sharpton— Remarks announcing the National Action Network anti-homophobia campaign, quoted in Jamal Watson (3 August 2005) "Sharpton Pledges Fight Against Homophobia Among Blacks" New York Sun
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. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
rose macaulay— Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956).
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
— H. L. Mencken in A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)[ ]
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.
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
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like Adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
— p. 15. (Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930))
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed Adultery, are now extinct.
— The Bread-Winner (1930)
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 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)
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, in a 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
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her already in his heart.
— Matthew 5:27-28 (KJV).
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
Autobiography is now as common as Adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
— John Grigg, Sunday Times, 28 February 1962
In countries where royalty is upheld, it is a special offence to rob the crown jewels, which are the emblems of that sovereignty before which the loyal subject bows, and it is treason to be found in Adultery with the Queen, for in this way may a false heir be imposed upon the State; but in our Republic, the ballot-box is the single priceless jewel of that sovereignty which we respect, and the electoral franchise, out of which are born the rulers of a free people, is the Queen whom we are to guard against pollution.
— Charles Sumner in his The Crime Against Kansas speech (May 19-20, 1856).
