Infidelity

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climates sultry. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesnt mean anything to most men. But I wouldnt date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. Ive divorced people for that. – Joan Collins

I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives. – Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. – W. Somerset Maugham

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives. – Marilyn Monroe

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust

One mans folly is often another mans wife. – Helen Rowland

O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! – William Shakespeare

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. – J. August Strindberg

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another mans enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor. – Jeremy Taylor

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so. – Sir John Vanbrugh

I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another. – Sir John Vanbrugh

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. – William Wycherley