Affair Quotes - page 2

To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair. (André Maurois)
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power. View quote
Camille Paglia
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) View quote
Joseph Campbell
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it. View quote
Bob Dole
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle. View quote
Jane Austen
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
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. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
It's an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you've been and whats happened. In the end, you're just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution. (Stephen Spender)
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. View quote
Herman Melville
When you've parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you've had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me? View quote
Mario Cuomo
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly. View quote
Flora Thompson
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. View quote
Molière
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair. View quote
Leo Strauss
The great affair, we always find, is to get money. View quote
Adam Smith
I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. View quote
John F. Kennedy
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. View quote
Mario Benedetti
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. View quote
Mary Balogh
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer. (Sophie Kinsella)
The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. View quote
François Lelord
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do. View quote
Bradley Whitford
He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate. View quote
J.R. Ward