Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relationship where you want to see other people, and the opportunity to cheat comes up, don't.

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

There is no justification for having an affair.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial.

The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.

Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

Her [Hillary Clinton's] husband is running around on her with everything that walks. He's having an affair with Gennifer Flowers, he's having an affair with... I forget the names, but they're legion. He's cheating on her frequently, and she knows about it and yet puts up with it and stays in Arkansas. Why? At the beginning of feminism, when this is exactly the kind of boorish behavior women are not gonna put up with anymore, no way.

I never cheat unless you count the girls I cheat on

Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Always wanting another man than your own.

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.