Infidelity Quotes - Unfaithfulness Quotes

“The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.”
François de la Rochefoucauld

"My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old."
Gracie Allen

“The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.”
Alexandre Dumas fils

“Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of the memory
of what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost”
Dreams, Deep Dish (ft Stevie Nicks)

"Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived."
Ninon De Lenclos

"I'm unfaithful with women, but I have always been faithful to myself."
Jack Nicholson

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

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Oscar Wilde

"It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be."
Brigitte Bardot

"An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't."
Sacha Guitry

“It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.”
Cyril Connolly

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Infidelity - cheating - is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do."
Joy Browne



"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
Jimmy Carter

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

“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”
Marquis De Sade

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
Oscar Wilde

Same words but quite different meaning:

"Those who are unfaithful know the pleasures of love; those who are faithful know its tragedies."
Oscar Wilde



"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
Jerry Hall



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

"In order to stop themselves from cheating, some guys carry around a picture of their wife so they can pull it out and remind themselves of what they have. That didn't work for me, so I carry around a picture of my wife's attorney."
Chico Marx

"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."
Jane Welsh Carlyle

"I think a man can have two, maybe three affairs while he is married. Three is the absolute maximum. After that, you are cheating."
Stevie Nicks

"A wife is faithful to her husband. Another is unfaithful two times per week to hers. On average, those two wives cheat on their husband once every week."
Alfred Sauvy