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“The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.”

Way Mind Father House Left Religious Lines Half Cold Evolution England Hot Moved Intellect France Germany Capture Infidelity Hostility Reformation Frenchmen Half Way Infallibility

Author:Will Durant

“Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.”

Source: Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”

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Book:Moloka'i: A Novel

Source: Moloka'i: A Novel

“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”

War Literature Sex Weapons Female Males Cheating Infidelity Thoughtlessness Vindictiveness

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.”

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Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.”

Love Is Welcome Infidelity Fidelity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.”

People Wells Wife Habit Mere Devoted Infidelity

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“No adultery is bloodless.”

Infidelity Adultery

Book:The City and the House: A Novel

Source: The City and the House: A Novel

“Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.”

Men Doe Hell Four Wife Bed Gains Neighbor Punishment Uncomfortable Infidelity Adultery Reckless

Author:Seneca the Younger

“She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.”

Reason Night Morning Infidelity Noon

Author:Ada Leverson

“Where cheating is, there's mischief there.”

Cheating Infidelity Mischief

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.”

Wise Trouble Husband Married Infidelity Married Women

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“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.”

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Book:A Madman's Defense

Source: A Madman's Defense

“Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.”

Men Three Wife Horse Cheating Infidelity Three Things Poor Richard Cheated Wigs

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.”

Desire Women Emotion Revenge Cheating Infidelity

Author:Cyril Connolly

“So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.”

Ifs Want Stars Moon Affair Infidelity Vacant

Author:Leonard Cohen

“God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.”

Stronger Infidelity Faithfulness Unfaithfulness God's Faithfulness

Author:Pope Francis

“Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.”

Men Done Christ Views Division Infidelity

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.”

“'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.”

One Thing Honor Eternal Infidelity Inability Unbelief Insincerity Smitten

Book:Miscellaneous essays

Source: Miscellaneous essays

“Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.”

Giving Dies Return Valuable Grass Weed Infidelity Blades Blades Of Grass

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.”

Thinking Heart Soul Poor Creatures Mass Currents Heavy Invisible Fearful Load Infidelity Blindness Desolation Infidel

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.”

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Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.”

Men Christianity Feet Atheism Spots Infidelity

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.”

Degrees Infidelity

Author:Delphine de Girardin

“Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.”

Source: Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

“A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."”

Knows Men Believe Young One Day Young Man Creeds Drs Infidelity

Author:Arthur Helps

“Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.”

Air Breaths Breasts Superstitions Infidelity Fog Unbelief Pumps

Author:Jean Paul

“Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!”

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Book:The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.”

Children Mother Taught Infidelity Infidel

Author:Josh Billings

“Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.”

Thinking Infidelity Freethinker

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.”

Devil Atheist Infidelity

Author:Jonathan Swift

“In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.”

Children Age Parent Principles Position Argument Defense Abandon Surprising Infidelity

Author:William Wilberforce

“Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.”

Way Humans Persons Whole Love Is Tears Terrible Understood Historical Oneself Betrayal Infidelity Vocation Whole Family

Author:Junot Diaz

“People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.”

People Knows Ends Direct Betrayal Fascinated Infidelity Undone Piercings

Author:Junot Diaz

“Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.”

Raises Profound Intimacy Infidelity

Author:Junot Diaz

“When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.”

Way Book Ideas Stories Wanted Focused Infidelity

Author:Junot Diaz

“There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.”

Stills Marriage Husband Links Infidelity

Author:Sacha Guitry

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”

Men Wish Honest Honesty He Man Errors Faithful Perpetual Infidelity Dishonesty Honest Man Unfaithful Renegades

Author:Charles Peguy

“She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”

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Author:Marguerite Duras

“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”

“Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.”

Source: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God

“If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.”

Ifs Years Today Action Church Crosses Patience Salvation Believer Infidelity Through The Years

Author:L. E. Maxwell

“Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

“A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.”

Long Running Long Runs Infidelity Adverse Conjugal

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer's entrancing vision.”

World Made America Father Vision Wife Wonderful Husband Exciting Infidelity Haunting Korea Sympathetic Korean Geese Facets

Author:Janice Y. K. Lee