Lauren Bacall Quotes

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

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

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.

I would never steal another woman's man.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.

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

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

In real life, there are some times where a partner has cheated on somebody, and that person never found out about it. I have to imagine that that's happened before. It's a thing we don't really want to think about, because it's maybe the most painful thing to think about in a relationship - 'What if I've been cheated on and never knew?'

Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.

You make your own choices. Even extramarital affair, it's your own decision. And you suffer for it and pay for it. That's what 'Ankahee' is all about.

I have cheated. But I don't regret it because we were not serious. I wouldn't have ever done it if I were serious about the girl.

Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, 'I found one, I'm sorry. That's it. Goodbye!'

Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.

Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.