Infidelity Quotes

Before I begin with famous quotes about infidelity, here is something I would like to put forth. The world has been narrowed down to a global village. With so many options to go for, it becomes difficult to stick with the name of 'one lady lover' or 'one man lover'. Infidelity, nowadays, has become a common say and a topic to speak about. 'Men are dogs', has been an age-old statement used by the inhabitant of Venus to attribute the quality of the ones of Mars. But if we go by various surveys, about 54% of women are known to commit infidelity as compared to 57% of men. A difference of mere 3%, does not make men to be the 'born cheaters'.

Quotes about Infidelity for Men and Women

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe." - Thomas Paine

"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists." - William Jennings Bryan

"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined." - Katherine Anne Porter

"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 think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity." - Eva Longoria

"He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity." - Maimonides

"When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage." - Albert Camus

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

"It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possess no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian." - John Updike

"Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait."- Anonymous

"Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people." - Wendell Phillips

"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler." - Lord Byron

"Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts." - Rachel Hunter

"I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home." - Michael Zaslow

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity." - Jean Baudrillard

"Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does." - Ambrose Bierce

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity." - Edmund Burke

"'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them." - Thomas Henry Huxley

"I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat." - John Randolph

Merely reading the sentences or the phrases is not enough to get a grasp of the meaning of infidelity which these quotes are trying to portray. So even reading between the lines is expected. So, do not rush, take your time and try to understand what these authors had to say about this one aspect of human nature.