Claire Tomalin Quotes

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Adultery is democracy applied to love.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

In Europe, extramarital affairs are considered a sign of good health—a feat.

Affairs have been going on since Tolstoy.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

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.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

I love women. I mean, I'm married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble.

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.