Quotes About Infidelity

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

— Oscar Wilde

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

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

— Oscar Wilde

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

— H. L. Mencken

Next to the pleasure of making a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

— William Wycherley

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

— George Bernard Shaw

He has decided to take himself a wife, but he hasn’t decided yet whose...

— Peter De Vries

The trouble with marrying your mistress is that you create a job vacancy.

— Sir James Goldsmith

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal.  There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior.  Unless she is really attractive.

— Bruce Jay Friedman

Extramarital sex is overrated as premarital sex.  And marital sex, come to think of it.

— Simon Gray

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

— Henny Youngman

I am not faithful but I am attached.

— Gunter Grass

There’s nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Infidelities may be forgiven, but never forgotten.

— Madame de Lafayette