James Goldsmith Quotes

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

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

I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

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

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.

I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.

A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

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.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

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

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

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

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

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.