Tom Stoppard Quotes

'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

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

A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

The wife's run off with the bloke next door. I do miss him.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Although jealousy is a strong word, who would like to see the person they love romance someone else, even onscreen?

When a man gets cheated on, I'm like, 'Meh, he'll find somebody else.' When a woman gets cheated on, that's a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect - you had a great love and the universe took her.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

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

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.