Infidelity Quotes and Sayings about Cheating in a Relationship
Famous Quotes about Infidelity
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
“Where cheating is, there’s mischief there.” —William Blake
“The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.” —Lord David Cecil
“Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait.” —Wendell Phillips
“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” —Oscar Wilde
“Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.” —Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin
“Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?” —Paul Newman
“Wise married women don’t trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.” —Samuel Johnson
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate’s sultry.”
“When I’m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I’m near.” —E.Y. Harburg
“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.” —Katherine Anne Porter
“Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler.” —Lord Byron
“When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.” —Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” —Oscar Wilde
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.” —Albert Camus
“When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.” —Francois La Rochefoucauld
“Tis’ my opinion that every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered.” —Susannah Centlivre
“It’s easy to deny the seriousness of an emotional affair but it can be extremely threatening to a marriage.” —Dr. Gail on MSNBC
“A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.” —Marcel Proust
“People who are so dreadfully “devoted” to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people’s wives as well.” —Jane Welsh Carlyle
“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature — and another woman to help him forget them.” —Helen Rowland
“I don’t want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.” —Michael Zaslow
“Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.” —Ninon de Lenclos
“You have heard it said, ‘Do not commit adultery’. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” —Matthew 5:27, Bible
“Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds f or jealousy are worthy of it.” —Francois La Rochefoucauld
“The new infidelity is between people who unwittingly form deep, passionate connections before realizing that they’ve crossed the line from platonic friendship into romantic love. Infidelity is any emotional or sexual intimacy that violates trust.”
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” —Thomas Paine
“Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.” —Thomas Chalmers
“You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.” —Sir John Vanbrugh
Emotional Infidelity Quotes
“Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait.” —Anonymous
“Where cheating is, there’s mischief there.” —William Blake
“The heart of a cheater is empty and hollow.” —Anonymous
“Betrayal can only happen if you love.” —John Le Carre
“Love is a game in which one always cheats.” —Honore de Balzac
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” —Oscar Wilde
“One is easily fooled by that which one loves.” —Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
“Wise married women don’t trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.” —Samuel Johnson
“In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, O’ the cheating that goes on.” —Saul Antin
“She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.” —Ada Leverson
“A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” —William Blake
“Because I’ve been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.” —Rachel Hunter
“When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.” —François de la Rochefoucauld
“Tis’ my opinion that every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered.” —Susannah Centlivre
“If you say, ‘I love you’, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.” —Jean Baudrillard
“You have heard it said, ‘Do not commit adultery’. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” —Matthew 5:27
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” —Thomas Paine
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” —Lao Tzu
“You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.” —Sir John Vanbrugh
Infidelity Quotes about Cheating Husband
“Cheating is easy, try something more challenging like being faithful.” —Unknown
““One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” —Al David
“By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.” —Immanuel Kant
“Trust is like a paper, once it’s crumbled it can’t be perfect.” —Unknown
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” —Unknown
“No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.” —Rose Wynters
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” —Unknown
“Most people cheat because they’re paying more attention to what they’re missing rather than what they have.” —Unknown
“I trusted you but now your words mean nothing to me, because your actions spoke the truth.” —Unknown
“I am a good enough person to forgive you. But not stupid enough to trust you again.” —Unknown
“A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.” —Matshona Dhliwayo
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
““I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which ones to surf.” —Jonatan Mårtensson
“You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future.” —Steve Maraboli
“If you cheat on someone that is willing to do anything for you, you actually cheated yourself out of true loyalty.” —Unknown
“The worst kind of hurt is betrayal because it means someone was willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better.” —Unknown
“I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.” —Olivia Wilde
“Cheating on a girl is deeper than people realize. It destroys her outlook on love, her future relationships, and her peace within herself.” —Unknown
“A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
“If it’s true that men and women can be ‘just friends’ then how come all cheaters first start out as “just friends?” —Oliver Markus Malloy
“I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.” —Rachel Thompson
“I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level – unless you’re dealing with a sociopath – there’s always a reason.” —Jessica Capshaw
“If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think that the person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you much more than you deserved.” —Unknown
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings.” —Unknown
“Something deep inside you wants to believe that your spouse could never really, actually, break the sacred vow between you. Intimacy with anyone else? Unreal, unthinkable.” —Michelle Weiner-Davis
“As a woman who experienced infidelity firsthand, I will always advise my girlfriends to only trust their husbands 95 percent and leave 5 percent for human error.” —Yolanda Hadid
“Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.” —Danka V.
“I always find the worst lies are told in relationships – I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone’s feelings from being hurt.” —Kirsten Prout
“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.” —Cheryl Hughes
“In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, do not bother with lying. There’s no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.” —Andy Garcia
“Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn’t find anyone new? He’ll come slinking back. By then, if you’re smart, you’ll have decided you’re better off without him.” —Kelley Armstrong, Visions
“I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.” —Angelina Jolie
“Infidelity is not about love but about a personal need system out of wack, an inability to set boundaries, a sense of entitlement, an addiction problem, unresolved internal tension from a long time ago, a deep-seated belief of inadequacy plus more.” —Dr. Robert Huizenga
“And of course, it is. But when you’re faced with the consequences of ending a marriage—like weekends without the kids, less money, a smaller house, a lower standard of living, the prospect of dating again, and tearing up years of photos—many people can’t go there.” —Mort Fertel
“Infidelity has absolutely nothing to do with love. It has to do with an emptiness or a now bankrupt coping mechanism within your spouse that has been there long before they met you. An affair is an attempt to escape from the reality of one’s self.” —Dr. Robert Huizenga
“People who truly are initially just friends or just friendly collegues slowly move onto the slippery slope of infidelity. In the “new infidelity”, secret emotional intimacy is the first warning sign of impending betrayal. Yet most people don’t recognize it as such until they’ve become physically intimate.” —Shirley P. Glass
“Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.” —Meryn G. Callander
“It wasn’t about who he chose. I had moments of like: “Okay, I’m not sexy enough? I’m not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?” Then I immediately stopped. “No, no, no — don’t start doing that.” Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry that onto other things.” —Eva Longoria
“It’s about realizing it’s not about you. When someone cheats on you, it’s about them… about their shortcomings. It makes it feel like it’s about our shortcomings, like there was something wrong with us,” Lopez said. “But the truth is, that it’s really their ego, and what they need to fill within themselves that drives them to do things like that. Not because you weren’t enough.” —Jenniffer Lopez
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” —Haruki Murakami
“The most important quality that an unfaithful spouse needs in order to successfully regain their offended partner’s trust, is that the betrayer “gets it”. “Getting it” means that the straying spouses understand the wrongness of their behaviors and the depth of the pain they have caused. They need to affectively renounce their old behaviors and develop a keen sense of what it’s like to be in their partners’ shoes.” —Linda J. Macdonald
Infidelity in marriage Quotes
“Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.” —Junot Diaz
“Marriage is like pi—natural, irrational, and very important.” —Lisa Hoffman
“Betrayal can only happen if you love.” —John Le Carre
“He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.” —Tristan J. Leo
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” —Fawn Weaver
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” —Andre Maurois
“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.” —Peter De Vries
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together.” —Unknown
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
“A good marriage is like a casserole. Only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.” —Anonymou
“The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.” —Billy Graham
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” —Michel de Montaigne
“In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to, ‘until debt do us part.” —Sam Ewing
“A relationship is like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave it broken than try to hurt yourself by putting it back together.” —Unknown
“For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.” —Bill Cosby
“Never to be angry, never to disagree at all seems to most of us a sign not of love, but indifference.” —Allan Fromme
“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.” —Harold Nicolson
“To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong admit it, whenever you’re right shut up.” —Ogden Nash
“Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.” —Robert Browning
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?” —Barbara Streisand
“Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.” —Atul Purohit
“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.” —Robert Anderson
“The formula for a happy marriage? It’s the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don’t dwell on it.” —Jay Trachman
“The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV after. Forty is when you watch the TV during. Sixty is when you watch the TV instead.” —Unknown
“Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” —Sydney J. Harris
“People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end – whether we’ve had direct experience or not – there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.” —Junot Diaz
“Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.” —Marguerite De Valois
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” —Anais Nin
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” —Bruce Lee
“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.” —Junot Diaz
Infidelity Quotes To Help You Heal
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.” —Unknown
“The best apology is changed behavior.” —Unknown
“Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.” —Unknown
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” —Unknown
“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” —Unknown
“Forget enough to get over it. Remember enough so it doesn’t happen again.” —Unknown
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” —Unknown
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” —Unknown
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which ones to surf.” —Jonatan Mårtensson
“Infidelity is mentally, emotionally, and physically painful to the betrayed spouse. Be gentle with yourself as you heal.” —Dr. Karen Finn
“Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.” —Atul Purohit
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings.” —Unknown
“Every test in our life makes us bitter or better. Every problem come to break us or make us. The choice is ours whether we become victim or victor.” —Unknown
“On particularly rough days when I’m sure I can’t possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% … and that’s pretty good.” —Unknown