Welcome to our collection of affair quotes, where words resonate with the complexity, passion, and sometimes turmoil that accompanies affairs of the heart. Whether you’re seeking solace, understanding, or simply a reflection of your own experiences, these quotes encapsulate the myriad emotions and perspectives surrounding affairs. From renowned authors, philosophers, and individuals who have traversed the labyrinth of love, these quotes offer insight into the exhilarating highs and devastating lows of romantic entanglements outside the bounds of convention.
Affairs have been a subject of fascination and intrigue throughout history, explored in literature, art, and discourse. They evoke a spectrum of feelings – from the intoxicating allure of forbidden love to the heart-wrenching aftermath of betrayal. Through these quotes, we delve into the complexities of human relationships, exploring themes of desire, temptation, guilt, and the profound impact affairs can have on individuals and society. Join us on this journey through the nuanced landscape of affairs, where every quote serves as a poignant reminder of the tangled web we weave in matters of the heart.
Now, without further ado, immerse yourself in the wisdom, wit, and raw emotion of affair quotes below. Whether you choose to ponder them quietly, share them with others, or adorn them with artistic flair, may they illuminate the multifaceted nature of human connection and the tumultuous realm of affairs.
I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I’ve had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I’ve flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective. Norman Foster
Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November. James McGreevey
I just started taking pictures, and it was – it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic. Sally Mann
My birthday is generally a very quiet affair. Jackie Shroff
When I heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, my mind flashed back to 1985, when I began my love affair with computers. I was stationed in Moscow for The Associated Press, and I ordered an Apple IIc – by Telex – from a department store in Helsinki, Finland. They express-shipped it to me, a month later, by train. Andrew Rosenthal
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it’s about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. Freddy Fender
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. Ron Chernow
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. Mario Benedetti
I’ve had a love affair with every movie I’ve ever done. Tony Scott
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he’s dead. Judith Viorst
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. Plautus
A man’s dying is more his survivor’s affair than his own. Thomas Mann
In Lincoln’s day a President’s religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln’s countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. David Herbert Donald
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It’s like an affair with no mess. John Cusack
Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60. Amy Jackson
When he’s late for dinner, I know he’s either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it’s the street. Jessica Tandy
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It’s very European. Chita Rivera
The video for ‘Last Christmas’ was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across. Andrew Ridgeley
I don’t think I’m ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don’t see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that. James McAvoy
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. John Updike
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. Madeleine Albright
I don’t like to talk about that McCanles affair. It gives me a queer shiver whenever I think of it, and sometimes I dream about it and wake up in a cold sweat. Wild Bill Hickok
A man having an affair is acceptable, women are called characterless. Why? Abhinav Shukla
I know I will never have an affair with a married man again. Monica Lewinsky
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. Ingmar Bergman
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them. Duke of Wellington
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. Mel Torme
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. Herman Melville
The deliciousness of a bowl of pasta isn’t proportional to the time it takes to make it: A three-hour ragu doesn’t necessarily taste 15 times better than a 10-minute butter-and-Parm weeknight affair. Chris Morocco
Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don’t make the right decisions. Sandra Oh
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. Francoise Sagan
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. Francis Ford Coppola
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. Julio Cortazar
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn’t working for me at all. Donald Ray Pollock
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them. Ozzy Osbourne
The End of the Affair is almost like a play. Neil Jordan
It’s not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas. Yvette Mimieux
I’ve no time for an affair, and certainly no patience with being linked with one or the other man all the time. Shamita Shetty
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If it’s not some daring, dangerous affair, it’s just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people – a famous American iconic couple – who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine. Shelley Long
My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town. Mohit Chauhan
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. Theodore Sturgeon
When I was younger, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta’s daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer. Meaghan Rath
As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do. Peter Max
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications. Peter Bart
I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so I have about 150, almost 200 records of his. So much that I haven’t even listened to all of them. I see an Elvis record that I don’t have, and I’ll buy it and put it in my collection. Alexandra Shipp
I don’t want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair – some of our neighbours’ marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment. John Burnside
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. Mignon McLaughlin
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice. Ezra Cornell
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world – mental and material – in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. Archibald Hill
I’ve been a jealous person myself. I’ve been distrustful, convinced that somebody’s having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you’re looking for it, you always see it – even the change of expression in their face. Laura Fraser
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
During dating never had to do much and things happened smoothly. But wedding is an affair which involves family and so it takes more time and effort. Rahul Vaidya
Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were. Jimmy Page
My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge. Marquis de Lafayette
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Toni Morrison
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. Walter Gropius
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ’s footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair. Peter Marshall
My love affair with painting is bittersweet. Kehinde Wiley
When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it. Rose Tremain
The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up and threatened male sex against him, John was terrified. May Pang
When a writer talks about his work, he’s talking about a love affair. Alfred Kazin
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story. Vincent Bugliosi
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don’t put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life. Kim Cattrall
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. James McGreevey
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps. Julie Christie
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair. Gloria Stuart
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do. Bradley Whitford
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. Lionel Blue
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one’s priorities. Daphne Guinness
As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached ‘The Aeneid’ just as I would a contemporary poem or novel – and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido. Sally Rooney
I’m just writin’ about my little ol’ love affair. Merle Haggard
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. Rosalind Russell
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know. Bette Davis
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. Robert Frost
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he’s known as Straight Dave by the bar staff – and no one believes he’s as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her. Neil Tennant
My wedding won’t be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it… there’ll be nothing speculative about my wedding. Bipasha Basu
Oh, Mr Coward, sir – I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father! Kenneth More
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything. Angelina Jolie
There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. Arthur Schopenhauer
It’s shameful to admit, but it’s been a bit of a lifelong affair, and I do now feel I’m as good as it gets. I’m honourable, kind, friendly, warm, intelligent, generous, and I’ve got a good sense of humour. Miriam Margolyes
Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it’s nothing, and he was right. Pam Gems
I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. John Newcombe
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling. Anupama Parameswaran
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. Agnes de Mille
We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. Joycelyn Elders
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. Maurice Ravel
I won’t write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn’t tell anyone. Celia Johnson
One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me. Lynn Fontanne
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. Erma Bombeck